John Dewey: “And even as far as political arrangements are concerned, governmental institutions are but a mechanism for securing to…”

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.

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

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.