The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government…

Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism.

— Dana Loesch

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

— Ronald Reagan

“About immigrants from Russia: Soviet consciousness overlapped with the new American spirits has formed a specific and divisive culture. This culture is full of…

— Leo Pevsner

Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful,…

— Dale E Turner

“It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less…

— Abhijit V. Banerjee

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not…

— Gary Hamel

“In other words, speed, innovation, and global focus happen only when lots of delegated authority sits alongside lots of centralized authority.”

— Chris Lowney

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

— Milton Friedman

We Conservatives believe not in big, interventionist, centralized government. But in small and limited government, government as close to the people as possible.

— Maxime Bernier

“One of the strangest assumptions of present-day mental models is the idea that world of moderation must be a world of strict, centralized government…

— Donella H. Meadows

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an…

— Ulrich Beck

The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and…

— Josh Jones

The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It…

— Milton Friedman

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

— Milton Friedman

No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way.…

— Charles Koch