"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."
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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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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick (24 May 1878 β 5 October 1969) was an American Baptist and Presbyterian minister.
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