Speaking of what we now call "The Bureaucracy", Alexis de Tocqueville wrote:
"Thus, after taking each individual by turns in its powerful hands and
kneading him as it likes, the sovereign extends it arms over society as a
whole; it covers its surface with a network of small, complicated,
painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the
most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowd; it does
not break wills, but it softens them, bends them, and directs them; it
rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s
acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does
not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes,
and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of
timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd." [Power Line]
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