What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Alliance - in international politics the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Justice sir is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy combination and arrangement.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme rhythm and the words themselves.

In Australia not reading poetry is the national pastime.

I wanted to reimagine the role in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents events preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet and he would set out in conscious determination on an epic poem.