From the book "The Breakdown of Nations"

"Man's greatest happiness lies in his freedom as an individual. The small state is by nature internally democratic. In it the individual can never be outranked impressively by the power of government whose strength is limited by the smallness of the body from which it is derived. The rulers of a small state, if they can be called that, are the citizen's neighbors. Since he knows them closely, they will never be able to hide themselves in mysterious shrouds under whose cover they might take on the dim and aloof appearance of supermen.