Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police, not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private security, and which is neither costly nor vexatious; but of that sort of police which bad governments employ to preserve or extend their personal authority at any expense.
Book I, On Production, Chapter XVII, Section II, p. 177 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832)
