Latter-day Renown
Whatever doubts may exist about the authorship of the "Prologue," its most famous line has become an iconic part of Australian culture. (For example, it is quoted in the film Breaker Morant and provides the title of the play Our Country's Good). It begins:
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- From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas, we come,
- Though not with much éclat or beat of drum,
- True patriots all: for, be it understood:
- We left our country for our country's good.
- —George Barrington, A History of New South Wales
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Famous quotes containing the word renown:
“Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness than others. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)