John Dewey: “Optimism about democracy is to-day under a cloud.”

There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.

Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.

But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.

The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.