One foundation for the future of American democracy is a sound administrative system, able to discharge with competence and integrity the tasks laid upon it by the people. The present system is far in advance of that which sufficed in 1925, but its improvement has no more than kept pace with the added responsibilities heaped upon it.

p. vii (in 1948 edition), as cited in: Moynihan (2009) - Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926