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Quotes from Personal Responsibility: How the Framers coined a phrase as they created a nation — Mark Riebling

born 1963 United States

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The Framers did not pioneer the concept of man as a personally responsible agent. That notion, arguably the greatest of all Western ideas, dates to line 32 of Homer’s Odyssey, where Zeus asks people to stop blaming their bad choices on the gods.

Personal Responsibility: How the Framers coined a phrase as they created a nation (2010)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mark Riebling (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.