Famous quotes containing the words australian, capital, territory and/or budget:
“Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work—the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.”
—Vance Palmer (1885–1959)
“The capital is become an overgrown monster; which like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.”
—Tobias Smollett (1721–1771)
“Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“A budget takes the fun out of money.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)