Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) French economist and businessman
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Introduction, p. liv
“The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad.”
"Refutation of Helvétius" (written 1773-76, published 1875)
Context: The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
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Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Source: The Art of War, Chapter XIII · Intelligence and Espionage
David Lipscomb (1831–1917) Leader, American Restoration Movement
Source: Civil Government : Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny (1889), p. 73
Context: Human government, the embodied effort of man to rule the world without God, ruled over by "the prince of this world," the devil. Its mission is to execute wrath and vengeance here on earth. Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven.
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) Brazilian architect
Quoted in "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves," Tom Dyckhoff, The Times Online (London, 2007-12-12).
James K. Polk (1795–1849) American politician, 11th President of the United States (in office from 1845 to 1849)
Inaugural Address (4 March 1845)
Context: By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to it. One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
“There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
“A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name
Great Gorgon, Prince of darknesse and dead night.”
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene
Canto 1, stanza 37
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
Samanta Schweblin (1978) Argentine writer
On how she interpreted “home” in her collection Mouthful of Birds in “Samanta Schweblin: There’s No Place Like Home, Including Home Itself” https://lithub.com/samanta-schweblin-theres-no-place-like-home-including-home-itself/ in LitHub (2019 Jan 15)