Centralized Quotes

56 quotes by 46 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process. — Ronald Reagan
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
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
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
I donâ€™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
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
Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies. — Felix Morley
[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism. — Newt Gingrich
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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