Quote#Truth
I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to…
Quote byPrince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha · 1819–1861
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech of the Prince Consort at the Mansion House, 21 Mar. 1850, in The Principal Speeches and Addresses of H.R.H. the Prince Consort (John Murray, 1862), p. 109-110.
English (original)
I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives, and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.
— Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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