The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Columbus did not set out to seek a new route to China in response to a majority directive of a parliament, though he was partly financed by an absolute monarch.
 Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (1962). copy citation

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Author Milton Friedman
Source Capitalism and Freedom
Topic civilization government progress
Date 1962
Language English
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