John Dewey: “In spite of sudden and catastrophic revolutions, the essential continuity of history is doubly guaranteed.”

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.