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

The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

In no two ages or places is there the same public.

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