Quote#Politics & Power
In these days of strong party feeling and of keenly-contested social…
Quote byEbenezer Howard · 1850–1928
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898), Introduction..
English (original)
In these days of strong party feeling and of keenly-contested social and religious issues, it might perhaps be thought difficult to find a single question having a vital bearing upon national life and well-being on which all persons, no matter of what political party, or of what shade of sociological opinion, would be found to be fully and entirely agreed.
— Ebenezer Howard
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