John Bright (1811–1889) British Radical and Liberal statesman
Speech at his Durham election (July 1843), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright (London: Constable, 1913), p. 100.
1840s
“A great many men — some comparatively small men now — if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.”
Source: Living Words (1869), P. 165.
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