William Morris Hughes, CH KC , foi um político australiano que serviu como o 7.º Primeiro Ministro da Austrália, no cargo de 1915 a 1923. Hughes é mais conhecido por liderar o país durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, porém a sua influência na política nacional durou várias décadas. Hughes foi membro do parlamento federal da Federação em 1901 até à sua morte, a única pessoa a servir por mais de 50 anos. Ele representou seis partidos políticos durante a sua carreira, liderando cinco, superando quatro e sendo expulso de três. Wikipedia
“Australia was born on the shores of Gallipoli.”
Undated
Fonte: Inscribed in the Australian War Memorial, quoted in Joan Beaumont, ‘'Unitedly we have fought': imperial loyalty and the Australian war effort’, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 90, No. 2, The Great War (March 2014), p. 399
“We are loyal to the Empire first and foremost because we are of the British race.”
Speech during the 1917 federal election campaign (c. March 1917), quoted in Neville Kingsley Meaney, Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923: Volume 2 (2009), p. 202
Speech to the Imperial Conference of 1921, quoted in Correlli Barnett, The Collapse of British Power (Eyre Methuen, 1972), p. 177
Speech in Cardiff (20 July 1918), quoted in The Times (22 July 1918), p. 3
Had she achieved world power, would our fate have differed from that of Russia or Rumania? Would she then have talked about a League of Nations?
Speech in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester (26 August 1918), quoted in The Times (27 August 1918), p. 8
“That party will go down to all time as the party that failed Australia in her hour of need.”
Fonte: Regarding the Australian Labor Party, as quoted in a speech https://electionspeeches.moadoph.gov.au/speeches/1917-billy-hughes during the 1917 federal election campaign (27 March 1917)
