For years, I have watched governments take control of our lives, and their argument is always the same: fewer costs, greater efficiency. But the result is the same, too: less control by the people, more control by the state until the individual’s own wishes count for nothing. That is what I consider my duty to resist.
– Dowager Countess of Grantham Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey (Season 6, Episode 4)
