
“Let the dead bury the dead? But, the dead can bury no one.”
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011)
Speech in the House of Commons (15 March 1982) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1982/mar/15/budget-resolutions-and-economic-situation
Post-Prime Ministerial
“Let the dead bury the dead? But, the dead can bury no one.”
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011)
Farewell to Friedman-Hayek Libertarian Capitalism (2008)
New millennium
“WorkChoices is dead, it's buried, it's cremated.”
Quoted in ABC News "WorkChoices haunt Abbott" http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2958284.htm on abc.net.au, July 19, 2010.
2010
“There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector”
"Gossip in a Library"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
Source: From an interview with VIBE, " Caught Up http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hSYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=%22It+can+never+be+bad+to+have+a+foundation+as+a+man%22+usher&source=bl&ots=znEcU5UzFB&sig=nSA9TRsN-0VmlAwizQ_1eicZRP0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ow81T8e2JOet0QWamd2xAg&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22It%20can%20never%20be%20bad%20to%20have%20a%20foundation%20as%20a%20man%22%20usher&f=false" (July 2008), p. 65-71.
Source: Calculated Risk (1950), p. 6
Context: On Memorial Day we visited the American cemetery at Anzio and saw the curving rows of white crosses that spoke eloquently of the price that America and her Allies had paid for the liberation of Italy. If ever proof were needed that we fought for a cause and not for conquest, it could be found in these cemeteries. Here was our only conquest: all we asked of Italy was enough of her soil in which to bury our gallant dead.