If public officials were dependent upon citizens for official position and its rewards, their personal interests would coincide with those of people at large--at least of industrious and property-owning persons.
Dewey emphasizes the alignment of public officials' interests with those of the citizens they serve.
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Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.
For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.
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.
The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds from which authority proceeds.