John Dewey: “They assume that democracy is the product of an idea, of a single and consistent intent.”

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

Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.