There is no danger which we have to contend with which is so serious as an exaggeration of the power, the useful power, of the interference of the State. (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury)

There is no danger which we have to contend with which is so serious as an exaggeration of the power, the useful power, of the interference of the State.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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