John Dewey: “There are too many publics and too much of public concern for our existing resources to cope with.”

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

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.

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.