Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “History suggests that the cause of national decline is, as a rule, that the state in the nation concerned has sought to do too much rather than too little. This applies as much to the Roman Empire as to the Spanish. ” ~ Hugh Thomas (1931- ) Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, British historianSource: "An Unfinished History of the World" by Hamish Hamilton (1979)