As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance. - John Dewey

Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose. We have the next thing to that at the present time

Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume — an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and a change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them.

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.