a quote
 

"They cover the society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but enervates and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."