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“The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.”

“America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.”

Country Government America Humanity Support Stem European Countries Central Government It Support

Author:Jim Leach

“The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.”

Said Government Limits Democrat Central Government

Author:Mia Love

“The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.”

Way Government Plans Findings Blind Blindness Alleys Central Government

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.”

Men Hands Government Decision He Man Limits Gun Decision Making Utopian Central Government

Author:Murray Rothbard

“Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.”

Knows War Country Government Liberty Crisis Permanent Agency Justify Central Government

Author:Aldous Huxley

“A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.”

Source: Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy

“Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.”

Has Beens Government Running Law Nations Leader Customs Afghanistan Countryside Provinces Kabul Central Government

Author:Khaled Hosseini