The great vice of democracy – a vice which is exacting a bitter retribution from it at this moment – is that for a generation we have been busy getti… - Robert Menzies

There have been, in the course of recorded history, some men of power who have cast shadows across the world. Winston Churchill, on the contrary, was a fountain of light and of hope. [...] His body will be carried on the Thames, a river full of history. With one heart we all feel, with one mind we all acknowledge, that it will never have borne a more precious burden, or been enriched by more splendid memories.

The highest production and living standards cannot be achieved without a new and human spirit in the industrial world. No industry can succeed without the co-operation of capital, management and labour. Each must be encouraged. Each must be fairly rewarded. Between the three there must be mutual understanding and respect.

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.