Too much government power = DESPOTISM!

"By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable."

-- Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974

Source: The Road to Serfdom

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