For no country has ever yet been found that has proved equal to Athens in the hour of trial; and if our empire shall be overthrown, and we go down to defeat, our fall will be more glorious than that of any other state, for we shall have left to all after-ages an imperishable monument of our power.
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"We are a city open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner from our midst."
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."
"Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves."
"I am of the opinion that the individual who takes no part in public affairs is not to be regarded as a harmless, but as a useless character."
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
From Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War', Pericles' Funeral Oration. This highly boastful and almost fatalistic statement, made during wartime, could be seen as hubris or a reckless disregard for the cost of maintaining empire, potentially controversial to those who prioritized peace or stability over glory.
Date: 431 BC (approximate, as recorded by Thucydides)
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