If we desire to avoid insult we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity it must be known that we are at all times ready for War.

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

An argument fatal to the communist theory is suggested by the fact that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Limited in his nature infinite in his desire man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires since nature hath set none.

All all is theft all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and without doubt the most agreeable one.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance nature compulsions habit reason passion desire.