“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”
Statement made in 1935 or earlier, as quoted in The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern (1937) by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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American pastor 1878–1969Related quotes
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