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.
Athenian statesman
Funeral Oration, as recorded by Thucydides
c. 431 BCE
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