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.


The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (ed. 1873)

Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...