Quotes by : Benjamin Constant

If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes....

Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever!....

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is....

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if....

The actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who....