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)
“I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.”
—Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872)
“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)