Sir Henry Parkes

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    Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.
    Richard, Sir Hull (b. 1907)

    Our business being to colonize the country, there was only one way to do it—by spreading over it all the associations and connections of family life.
    —Henry Parkes (1815–1896)