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

There is a tremendous amount of talk engaged in about economic problems; there is a great amount of discussion about how much more money A gets or B gets or C gets. We could easily become man for man, woman for woman, the richest country in the Southern Hemisphere, but it won't matter very much unless we can say that we are the most civilised country in the Southern Hemisphere. Civilised because we understand the unselfish duties of citizenship; civilised because we have come to understand the importance of the human being, the dignity of the human being, the dignity of labour, the responsibility of riches. These are the tests of civilisation, and our great task is to produce a civilised nation.

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

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.