Famous quotes containing the words australian, capital, territory and/or budget:
“The Australian mind, I can state with authority, is easily boggled.”
—Charles Osborne (b. 1927)
“There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern.... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The United States is the only great nation whose government is operated without a budget. The fact is to be the more striking when it is considered that budgets and budget procedures are the outgrowth of democratic doctrines and have an important part in developing the modern constitutional rights.... The constitutional purpose of a budget is to make government responsive to public opinion and responsible for its acts.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)