John Dewey: “States nominally democratic show the same tendency to assume that a winning general has some quasi-divine appointment to…”

Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.

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