John Dewey: “The logical conclusion is that the ground of obedience lies ultimately in superior force.”

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.

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

The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.