Edmund Barton

“For the first time, we have a nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.”

“We cannot be a nation without a national character; and we cannot have a national character without a national pride.”

“I do not think that the doctrine of the equality of man was really ever intended to include racial equality.”

“There is no fame in the world equal to the fame of a man who is known to be upright in his dealings.”

“The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.”

“We are guarding the last part of the world in which the higher races can live and increase freely for the mainstay of civilization.”

“The Federal Government is the government of the whole people, and its duty is to the whole people.”

“A nation's greatness, its true glory, is not in its wealth, but in its character.”