John Dewey: “In determining consequences, they institute publics with different interests, which exact different types of political…”

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

So to the patent objection that the state is a very modern institution, it is replied that while modernity is a property of those structures which go by the name of states, yet all history, or almost all, records the exercise of analogous…

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

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