"The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing government power.

 

"But there is also a constructive reason.

 

"The great advances in civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government....

 

"[Man's great] achievements were the product of individual genius, of strongly held minority views, of a social climate permitting variety and diversity.

 

"Government can never duplicate the variety and diversity of individual action."