Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Lionel Murphy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian politician Lionel Murphy.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Lionel Keith Murphy QC was an Australian politician, barrister, and judge. He was a Senator for New South Wales from 1962 to 1975, serving as Attorney-General in the Whitlam Government, and then sat on the High Court from 1975 until his death.

Australian - Politician | August 30, 1922 - October 21, 1986

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The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.

Lionel Murphy

The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.

Lionel Murphy

We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed.

Lionel Murphy

The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.

Lionel Murphy

There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.

Lionel Murphy

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.

Lionel Murphy

Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.

Lionel Murphy

We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.

Lionel Murphy

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Lionel Murphy

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