Doing Evil for Good

How odd that in 2 minuted I came across these two quotes from two different websites:

From BTW:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock, p. 292.

This one from Fools That Dream:

"If I knew for certain that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life." - Thoreau

Think about that! Thoreau and Lewis bedfellows on tyranny, or is that "compassion"?

And to throw in a bonus, here's Sowell on something similar (again from Fools That Dream):

"FDR [also] surrounded himself with highly intelligent people; that is no guarantee of anything except brilliant rationalizations of failure."