Mises Daily
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Benjamin Constant
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[This lecture was given by the Swiss-French thinker Benjamin Constant in 1819. The French title is “De la liberté des anciens comparée à celle des modernes.”] Introduction by Ralph Raico “He loved liberty as other men love power,” was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a 19th-century admirer. His great public concern, all throughout his