John Dewey: “There has been a machinery of government, but it has been employed for purposes which in the strict sense are…”

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

There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.

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.

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