John Dewey: “The idea of democracy is a wider and fuller idea than can be exemplified in the state even at its best.”

In no two ages or places is there the same public.

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.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.