"Bureaucracy is undoubtedly the weapon and sign of a despotic government, inasmuch as it gives whatever government it serves, despotic power."[Hat tip Don Boudreaux]~ letter from Lord Acton to Richard Simpson (January 13th, 1859), collected in Essays in Religion, Politics, and Morality
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