John Dewey: “The ties which hold men together in action are numerous, tough and subtle.”

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.

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

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

The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.