The Free Liberal: All military geniuses love centralization, which increases their strength, and all centralizing geniuses love war, which obliges nations to concentrate all powers in the hands of the state.

August 10, 2007

All military geniuses love centralization, which increases their strength, and all centralizing geniuses love war, which obliges nations to concentrate all powers in the hands of the state.

— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume 2 [1840]

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