John Dewey: “My vote never changed anything.” Those somewhat more reflective add: “It is nothing but a fight between the ins and the…”

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.

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.

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.