This country is too great, is population too numerous, its interests too vast and complicated…to be governed as to the great range of our daily affairs, from one central power in Washington….[D]o not let us in our anxiety for efficiency cast away, break down, reject, those limits which save us to the control of our homes, of our own domestic affairs, and of our own local governments. For there, in the last analysis must be formed the character of free, independent, liberty-loving citizens. Elihu Root
U.S. Senator Root , Nobel laureate (Investor’s Business Daily, July 27, 1999) (1845-1937)