If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.

I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.

He is lofty, and I am eminent.

Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.

I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.