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In a sense, it's always a sombre moment in a country where you ask the people who have done the right thing to put up with inconvenience because a limited number of people have done the wrong thing, but that is the nature of a democratic society.

— John Howard

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Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

But we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.

In the end, young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

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