A Quote by Charles Sturt

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Charles Sturt

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Colony Course Crime Great Like Must New Proportion South Wales

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Charles Sturt
Australian - Explorer
April 28, 1795 - June 16, 1869

In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.

Charles Sturt

Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's difficult at times. But when I go home to north Wales, or to somewhere I've never been in south Wales, I still feel at home because I'm in Wales. It's hard to explain.

Gary Speed

It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

Charles Sturt

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

Joseph Banks

There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.

Ridley Scott

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

Abbie Cornish

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.

Joshua Slocum

I want every person in New South Wales, no matter where they live, to feel that they have the choices and the opportunities to be their best.

Gladys Berejiklian

If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.

Paul Keating

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative faculties. He who easily comprehends all that is before him, and soon exhausts any single subject, is always eager for new inquiries; and in proportion as the intellectual eye takes in a wider prospect, it must be gratified with variety, by more rapid flights and bolder excursions.

Samuel Johnson

The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.

Charles Sturt

Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi... The victory is being planned... It demands cold-bloodedness.

Samora Machel

Part of my childhood was spent in Sydney and part in rural New South Wales, at Armidale.

John Cornforth

Like with all other crime, we must, of course, treat the perpetrators of these actions as the criminals they are. But unlike with the vast majority of other crime, justice is not delivered simply by punishing the perpetrator. This is because the harm associated with domestic violence extends far beyond the point of contact.

Letitia James

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.

Charles Sturt

There is no city in the country with nil incidence of crime. We have to look into the crime rate in proportion to the population figures.