"History suggests that the cause of national decline is, as a rule, that the state in the nation concerned has sought to do too much rather than too little. This applies as much to the Roman Empire as to the Spanish. " | Quote by: | Hugh Thomas
(1931- ) Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, British historian |
Source: | "An Unfinished History of the World" by Hamish Hamilton (1979) |
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