Menzies: If I were the Archangel Gabriel, you wouldn't be in my constituency. - Robert Menzies

A vehement concentration upon 'rights' obscures the vital fact that unless duties are accepted and performed by each of us, not only our rights but the rights of others will die for want of nourishment. If we were all tired democrats, eager beneficiaries but reluctant contributors, democracy would collapse under its own weight.

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.

'I pay my taxes', says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.