“Some of my correspondents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.”
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It punctures the myth of the lone miracle-worker. Real change moves through many ordinary hands and organizations, not one gifted individual; crediting that larger machinery keeps a leader honest about the limits of personal power and steadies people who'd otherwise wait to be rescued.
When to use it
- A campaign organizer credits the hundreds of volunteers who knocked on doors rather than taking sole praise for the win.
- A founder points reporters toward the engineering team when a product gets called a breakthrough.
- A teacher whose class scores jump names the tutors and parents doing daily work behind the scenes.