Centralized Quotes
56 quotes by 46 authors
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The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties…
— Josh Jones
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To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government.…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid…
— Rick Perry
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You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate…
— Edwidge Danticat
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Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a…
— Walter E. Williams
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War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness…
— Joseph Sobran
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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 was…
— Milton Friedman
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Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment…
— Henry Hazlitt
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To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and…
— Paul Driessen
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No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On…
— Charles Koch
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The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized institutions is that…
— John Turner
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Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.
— Ronald Reagan
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Centralized sounds good ... but the reality is that the National Guard and Army don't have the kind of ties with local organizations that ultimately…
— Peter May
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
— Maggie Gallagher
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or religion helps solve…
— Jared Diamond
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I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of…
— Joichi Ito
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Don't think that the lack of leaders and of a party ideological line means anarchy, if by anarchy you mean chaos, bedlam, and pandemonium. What…
— Michael Hardt
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Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.
— Felix Morley
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[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.
— Newt Gingrich
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In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of…
— Colin Robinson
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