And who said this?

[Niklowe]

Answers on a postcard please.

The best way to take control over a people and control them
utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode
rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible
reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights
and freedoms being removed until past the point at which
these changes cannot be reversed

And no, it's not a bank.

[Guest]

That would have been a certain Herr Hitler - although could just have easily been any of the present government of the UK today