John Dewey: “The current runs for or against the party in power and the individual candidate sinks or swims as runs the current.”

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.

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.

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.