Impelling the continent towards nationhood

Impelling the continent towards nationhood

FamilyVoice Australia, February 2021

... what we are doing by this great movement is not for us,
but for ... the untold millions that will follow us;
until this land of Australia shall gather within its bosom
all the fruits of the culture of the world, all the lessons from the philosophy of the world, all the high examples from the brilliant courage of our great forefathers; and until the flag of freedom shall be planted here so firmly, and guarded with such a fervid patriotism,
that all the powers on earth shall never assault it.

- Remarks Sir Henry Parkes delivered to the New South Wales House of Assembly on 7th May 1890, (noted in Honour to Whom Honour is Due by Bruce Smith, Sydney: McCarron and Co, 1899, p14).