Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Bio: Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman, economist, and writer, was born at Santa Eulalia de Sorribia, in Asturias. He was an adherent of the position that the state held supremacy over the Church, often called Erastianism.