It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?

I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.