We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing, although the eyes of an enemy may occasionally profit by our liberality; trusting less in system and policy than to the native spirit of our citizens.
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"We are free and open in our political life, and in our social relations we are not suspicious of one another."
"For we have not acquired our power by force, but by justice."
"Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to acquire it, but it is certainly dangerous to let it go."
"It is not the man who makes the most speeches that is to be feared, but the one who acts best."
"The admiration of the present and succeeding ages will be ours, since we have not shrunk from any toil or danger."
From Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War', Pericles' Funeral Oration. While extolling openness, this statement also admits a vulnerability to enemies, which might have been controversial among those advocating for stricter security measures or a more isolationist foreign policy.
Date: 431 BC (approximate, as recorded by Thucydides)
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