• The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

    H. G. Wells: The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
    H. G. Wells, J. F. Horrabin, William Ross (2004). “The Outline of History: Prehistory to the Roman Republic”, p.418, Barnes & Noble Publishing