Edmund Barton quotes
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“It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.”
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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.”
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“The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.”
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“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.”
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“I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.”
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“Creating a nation requires the will of the people.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.”
-- Edmund Barton
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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“Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.”
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