Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law; when it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses.
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"I am of the opinion that we ought not to give way to the Peloponnesians, but to maintain our own course."
"For we are a democracy, and our laws are equal to all alike in their private disputes."
"For the love of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and in old age it is not wealth, but honor, that gives us joy."
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
"For we are a city that is open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner from our midst, nor do we prevent anyone from learning or seeing anything, provided that by so doing he does not harm the st…"
From Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War', Pericles' Funeral Oration. While often celebrated, the emphasis on 'ability' over 'class' could be seen as a subtle justification for meritocratic rule within a democracy, potentially divisive among those who valued traditional aristocratic privilege, or those who felt excluded despite their ability.
Date: 431 BC (approximate, as recorded by Thucydides)
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