We may note, however, that for beings endowed with a capacity for experimenting, learning, and improving, progress is the general law.
Category: Bureaucracy
SPEECH ON THE TAX ON WINES AND SPIRITS
For when it comes to civil servants, there is no halfway house: if they are not very useful indeed, they are harmful; if they do not uphold the freedom of citizens, they stifle it.
23. – CIRCULARS FROM A GOVERNMENT THAT IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.
Obviously any civil servant who does not do a useful job does a damaging one by the very fact of taking action.