Quote#Nature
Religious education is demanded by the nation generally and by the…
Quote byBenjamin Disraeli · 1804–1881
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume II, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), p. 505.
English (original)
Religious education is demanded by the nation generally and by the instincts of human nature.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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