[GregoTX]

With every step towards totalitarian control, the fascists will talk about how we "need" this law, or we "need" this regulation, or this bureaucracy for the common good. We "need" gun control for the safety of the children, etc.

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
-- British Prime Minister "The Right Honourable" William Pitt the Younger, stated on the floor of the House of Commons November 18th 1783

[avenir]

That may have influenced a later epigram by Brit WH Auden:

“The tyrant’s device: Whatever is possible is NECESSARY.”