John Dewey: “Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states…”

The ties which hold men together in action are numerous, tough and subtle.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.

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