Henry LawsonIn a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod. ✨ Henry Lawson (1967). Collected Verse: 1885-1900377HumanityPolitics
Henry LawsonIt is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake. ✨ Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). Collected Prose: Autobiogra… ▶314PoliticsTime
Henry LawsonI’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.316Death
Henry LawsonIt is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acq… ▶319PoliticsTruth
Henry LawsonWe shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their… ▶255Politics
Henry LawsonBeer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.211Reflection
Henry LawsonOh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lo… ▶204Politics
Henry LawsonOn the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would… ▶209Politics