Government
never has a more tempting opportunity to increase its size, power
and scope, and to curtail the liberties of free people, than during
or immediately after a crisis. Indeed, crisis is so tempting an
opportunity for government that governments invent crisis whenever
possible. This is why "emergency acts" and "wars"
on anyone and anything are so popular for governments. Nothing entices
people to stop thinking, act impulsively, and to relinquish liberties
so easily as a "crisis" or a "tragedy" or an
"emergency." We need to be smarter if liberty is to survive.