John Dewey: “Regarded as an idea, democracy is not an alternative to other principles of associated life.”

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.

Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.