John M. Gaus

“Organization is the arrangement of personnel for facilitating the accomplishment of some agreed purpose through the allocation of functions and responsibilities. It is the relat\xading of efforts and capacities of individuals and groups engaged upon a common task in such a way as to secure the desired objective with the least friction and the most satisfaction to those for whom the task is done and those engaged in the enterprise.”

“New plains frontier was politically organized and opened and settled with little, if any, heed to its natural features of climate and land cover.”

“Leonard D. White's desire "to organize his own knowledge" reminds us of how much hacking away at a jungle has to be done at such an early stage in the study of and reporting on a new field.”

“The task will be more fruitfully performed if the citizen, and his agents in public offices, understand the ecology of government.”