John Dewey: “There is little that can be called industry and still less that constitutes a store of wealth until tools exist, and…”

There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.