John Dewey: “Equality then becomes a creed of mechanical identity which is false to facts and impossible of realization.”

Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.

The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.

In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.