John Dewey: “Since, however, a public is organized into a state through its government, the state is as its officials are.”

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.

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.

The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds from which authority proceeds.

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.