The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Milton Friedman, (Jul 31 1912-2006), US economist; He was one of the leading conservative laissez-fire economists in the second half of the 20th-c.; awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1976.