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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 2090
AUTHOR: Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81)
QUOTATION: That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous People, is my Prayer; that these great consequences can only be brought about by the energy and devotion of our Youth is my persuasion. We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
ATTRIBUTION: BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Sybil, final sentence, p. 497 (1980). First published 1845.
SUBJECTS: Youth