Centralization is that system of government under which the smallest number of minds, and those knowing the least, and having the fewest opportunities of knowing it…and having the smallest interest in the well working, have the management of it, or the control over it. Toulmin Smith
At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent. Joseph Sobran
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
Instead of stabilizing places like Iraq, international efforts to centralize power are creating a more fragile security environment than ever before. Albrecht Schnabel