John Dewey: “Much less is democracy the product of democracy, of some inherent nisus, or immanent idea.”

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.

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

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.

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