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Former Prime Minister Of Australia Inspirational Quotes (209)

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The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.
Robert Menzies
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Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.
John Howard
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The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.
Paul Keating
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We are constantly being told that we've never been wealthier. And many of us are. On average we all are. But that's just the problem.. no one is average.
Julia Gillard
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When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it refers to a religion accepted by the large majority, which assures them that God is not so much a Lord who demands obedience as a handyman who is available whenever we need help.
John Howard
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
Malcolm Fraser
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The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.
Edmund Barton
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The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
Paul Keating
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More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.
Robert Menzies
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Climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.
Julia Gillard
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By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.
Kevin Rudd
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The job of the evangelist is never easy.
Ben Chifley
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The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.
Bob Hawke
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The concept there was that the small number of developed countries within the Commonwealth should provide assistance. This was not just financial but personal, providing experts and so on, to assist less developed members of the Commonwealth to get on the growing path. And that was part of what we did with South Africa.
Bob Hawke
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We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.
Joseph Cook
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I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.
Robert Menzies
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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
Malcolm Fraser
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I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.
John Howard
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We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.
Julia Gillard
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So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.
Julia Gillard
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I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for the country's future and perhaps Mr. Howard and the Government don't like the fact that I'm putting out some positive alternatives. What's their preference.. for me to be a negative carping opposition leader?
Kevin Rudd
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We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.
John Howard
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Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very well that is the book you want to study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world.
Joseph Cook
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The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been.
Julia Gillard
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