The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteris…

- Henry Lawson

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do …

- Henry Lawson

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

- Henry Lawson

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia fr…

- Henry Lawson

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or …

- Henry Lawson

The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or …

- Henry Lawson

I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.

- Henry Lawson

Oh, 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…

- Henry Lawson

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of s…

- Henry Lawson