I think that extreme centralization of government ultimately enervates society, and thus, after a length of time, weakens the government itself; but I do not deny that a centralized power may be able to execute great undertakings with facility in a given time and on a particular point. This is more especially true of war . . . All men of military genius are fond of centralization; and all men of centralizing genius are fond of war . . .
-Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Fourth Book, Chapter IV
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