Quotes about Centralization

Defending democracy also sounds fine; but to defend democracy by military means, one must be militarily efficient and one cannot become militarily efficient without centralizing power, setting up a tyranny, imposing some form of conscription or slavery to the state. In other words, the miltary defence of democracy in contemporary circumstances entails the abolition of democracy even before war starts.

The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.