“By liberty I mean the triumph of individuality, as much over the authority that would presume to govern by despotism as over the masses who claim the right to make a minority subservient to a majority.”

About Benjamin Constant

Political Theorist • Swiss-French

Benjamin Constant was a Swiss-French political theorist, writer, and politician who was a prominent figure in French liberalism. He is best known for his influential 1819 lecture, "The Liberty of Ancients Compared with...