John Dewey: “Short terms and frequent elections would ensure their being held to regular account; the polling-booth would constitute…”

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.

There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.