John Lewis Gaddis Quote
Self-interest would become comfort and then affinity. Transparency, for this reason, was vital: We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing. Athenians found the fruits of other countries to be as familiar a luxury as those of [their] own. The walls made their citizenship global.
John Lewis Gaddis
Self-interest would become comfort and then affinity. Transparency, for this reason, was vital: We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing. Athenians found the fruits of other countries to be as familiar a luxury as those of [their] own. The walls made their citizenship global.
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