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Quote from Milton Friedman,


"The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power. But there is also a constructive reason. The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or in literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."


By:

Milton Friedman (more quotes by Milton Friedman or books by/about Milton Friedman)


(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system"

Source:

"Capitalism and Freedom"

Categories:

Government, Independence, Power

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