John Dewey: “Why should the public and its officers, even if the latter are termed statesmen, be wiser and more effective?”

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

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

So to the patent objection that the state is a very modern institution, it is replied that while modernity is a property of those structures which go by the name of states, yet all history, or almost all, records the exercise of analogous…

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