John Dewey: “Representative government must at least seem to be founded on public interests as they are revealed to public belief.”

What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.

There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

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