The French Government-one may say, every Government on the Continent in those days-had the special weakness of all bureaucracies; namely, that want of moral force which compels them to fall back at last on physical force, and transforms the ruler into a bully, and the soldier into a policeman and a gaoler.
"The Ancien Regime"
Charles Kingsley
Better for our children, if not for us, one great expenditure of blood and gold, than never-ending threats and rumours of war, commercial conflicts, political complications, frontiers to be safeguarded, bureaucracies to be financed."
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
"Law and Order" has indeed been the last refuge of bureaucracies all over the world.
"Freedom Through Disobedience"
C. R. (Chittaranjan) Das