Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life. (J. Oswald Sanders)

Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

J. Oswald Sanders

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