John Dewey: “The state is itself just only when it acts to secure justice--in the sense just defined.”

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.

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.

What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.