Malcolm Fraser

“Life wasn't meant to be easy.”

“If a country is not worth defending, it is not worth building.”

“We are all diminished when any of us are denied our basic rights.”

“An independent and self-respecting Australia can and must make its own decisions.”

“There is no freedom without economic freedom.”

“What a government does with tax money is as important as how much it takes.”

“The first law of politics is to direct the public hatred against some person or group.”

“We must seek to build a society in which all citizens have the opportunity to develop their own talents.”

“Our first responsibility is to the Australian people.”

“The world is not a very peaceful place.”

“I believe that the great majority of people coming to Australia are decent people.”

“Aboriginals are not just another pressure group. They are the original Australians and they have been the most deprived and the most ignored.”