John Dewey: “It is said, and said truly, that for the world’s peace it is necessary that we understand the peoples of foreign lands.”

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.

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…

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

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.