“Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter one, p. 14.
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Or, as Bourne had it, “War is the health of the state.”