We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.
We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.
As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.
As parents we have a tendency to overprotect; it's okay to try and show them all positives but we cannot forget that the real world has teeth
Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon.
That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.
