In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental…

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose…

— Anonymous

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples…

— Anonymous

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any…

— William J. Brennan

There is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are close to…

— Jacques Ellul

We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.

— Barbara Jordan

Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive…

— Herbert Spencer

There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion…

— Ludwig von Mises

The people are the source of governmental power. Along with many religious people, Latter-day Saints affirm that God gave the power to the people,…

— Dallin H. Oaks

The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other…

— Chellie Pingree

They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and…

— Emma Goldman

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains…

— Edward Forbes

“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies,…

— George Gilder

“The desire to control everything is giving way to pluralism, uniformity to diversity, centralization to localism, opacity to transparency, and immobilisme, or the resistance…

— John Micklethwait

“Organizational theorists, at least since Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 in what came to be called the contingency school, have recognized…

— Charles Perrow

“Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.”

— Ron Paul