John Dewey: “The result was a skew, a deflection and distortion, in democratic forms.”

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

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.

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