John Dewey: “Discussion of these traits will define the nature of the public and the problem of its political organization, and will…”

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.

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.