John Dewey: “The days are past when government can be carried on without any pretense of ascertaining the wishes of the governed.”

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.

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.

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.