"The beneficial effect of State intervention, especially in the form of
legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak visible, whilst its evil
effects are gradual and indirect, and lie outside our sight... Hence the
majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favour
upon government intervention. This natural bias can be counteracted
only by the existence, in a given society... of a presumption or prejudice
in favor of individual liberty, that is of laissez-faire."

A. V. Dicey