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There is hardly a section of the community that doesn't in one breath protest undying hostility to Government interference and, in the next breath, pray for it.

— Robert Menzies

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What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Policy speech (1939)

I would like to thank all those present—and those who are no longer present.

I am British to the bootstraps!

Speech at a White House luncheon (1964)

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

At a Liberal Party rally in Melbourne (1946)

"It's not a crown, it's an old felt hat!"

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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