John Dewey: “It has consisted in a continuous re-distribution of social integrations on the one hand and of capacities and energies…”

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

In no two ages or places is there the same public.

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

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.