Hugh Thomas Quote

Quote from Hugh Thomas,

"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."

By:	Hugh Thomas (more quotes by Hugh Thomas or books by/about Hugh Thomas)
	(1931- ) Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, British historian
Source:	"An Unfinished History of the World" by Hamish Hamilton (1979)
Categories:	Government, History, Independence, Power
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