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"As Churchill correctly noted, the horrors he listed [of World War I] were perpetrated by the 'might educated States'.  Indeed, they were quite beyond the power of individuals, however evil.  It is a commonplace that men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of avowed malice but from outraged righteousness.  How much more is this true of legally constituted states...The destructive capacity of the individual, however vicious, is small; of the state, however well-intentioned, almost limitless.  Expand the state and that destructive capacity necessarily expands too...Moreover, history painfully demonstrates that collective righteousness is far more ungovernable than any individual pursuit of revenge...The effect fo the Great War [World War I] was enormously to increase the size, and therefore the destructive capacity and propensity to oppress, of the state.  Before 1914, all state sectors were small...The area of actual state activity averaged between 5 and 10 percent of the Gross National Product."  The highest percentages were in Russia and Germany in the West, and Japan in the east.
- Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties, p. 14

As a note: it's projected with the new spending (nevermind the later effects) we'll have a government sector that'll be around 25% of our GDP.