Pericles — "For we are a city that is open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner from…"

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 state.
Pericles — Pericles Ancient · Athenian statesman

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Funeral Oration, as recorded by Thucydides

Date: c. 431 BCE

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