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Jag läser om John Stuart Mills mästerverk On Liberty. Den här passagen från slutet av bokens sista kapitel tycker jag mycket om: The […] most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government, is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. Every function superadded to those already exercised by the government, causes its influence over hopes and fears to be more widely diffused, and converts, more and more, the active and ambitious part of the public into hangers-on of the government, or of some party which aims at becoming the government. If the roads, the railways, the banks, the…