Edmund Barton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
-- Edmund Barton

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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
-- Edmund Barton

#Education #Taxation #Bears
The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.
-- Edmund Barton

#Men #Doctrine #Englishmen
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
-- Edmund Barton

#Exercise #People #States
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
-- Edmund Barton

#Should
Creating a nation requires the will of the people.
-- Edmund Barton

#Creating #People
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
-- Edmund Barton

#School #Hands #Differences
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
-- Edmund Barton

#Religious #School #Years
A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.
-- Edmund Barton

#Continents

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
Even if you forget thatÂ´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you canÂ´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.
Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

Edmund Barton famous quotes

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