John Dewey: “Discussion of these traits will define the nature of the public and the problem of its political organization, and will…”

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.