In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

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.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

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

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.

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.