George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Speech at the National Press Club (2004)
“Ultimately, the State has overwhelming power when compared to the limited resources and power of an accused.”
"Flynn's Sin Was Lying To Liars, Not Colluding With Russia," http://www.wnd.com/2017/12/flynns-sin-was-lying-to-liars-not-colluding-with-russia/ WND.COM, December 7, 2017 <br class="br">2010s, 2017
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Montesquieu book The Spirit of the Laws
A government may be so constituted, as no man shall be compelled to do things to which the law does not oblige him, nor forced to abstain from things which the law permits.
Book XI, Chapter 4.
The Spirit of the Laws (1748)
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) English mathematician, considered the first computer programmer
Context: Circumstances have been such, that I have lived almost entirely secluded for some time. Those who are much in earnest and with single minds devoted to any great object in life, must find this occasionally inevitable.... You will wonder at having heard nothing from me; but you have experience and candour enough to perceive and know that God has not given to us (in this state of existence) more than very limited powers of expression of one's ideas and feelings... I shall be very desirous of again seeing you. You know what that means from me, and that it is no form, but the simple expression and result of the respect and attraction I feel for a mind that ventures to read direct in God's own book, and not merely thro' man's translation of that same vast and mighty work.<br><br>In a letter to Andrew Crosse, as quoted in Eugen Kölbing's Englische Studien, Volume 19 https://archive.org/stream/englischestudien19leipuoft#page/157/mode/1up (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 157.
George Stigler (1911–1991) American economist
Source: "The theory of economic regulation," 1971, p. 3; Lead paragraph
Context: The state --the machinery and power of the state-- is a potential resource or threat to every industry in the society. With its power to prohibit or compel, to take or give money, the state can and does selectively help or hurt a vast number of industries. That political juggernaut, the petroleum industry, is an immense consumer of political benefits, and simultaneously the underwriters of marine insurance have their more modest repast. The central tasks of the theory of economic regulation are to explain who will receive the benefits or burdens of regulation, what form regulation will take, and the effects of regulation upon the allocation of resources.
“Integrative power [is] the ultimate power”
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1980s, Three Faces of Power, 1989, p. 109
Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) German Jewish philosopher and theologian
The one abandons the disobedient and expels him; the other receives him in its bosom and seeks to instruct, or at least to console him.
Source: Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism (1783), p. 45
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
The Corruptions of Our Time, p. 248
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
