The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.