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"The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, b..." — Henry Ward Beecher

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher Clergyman • American
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