"We are loyal to the Empire first and foremost because we are of the British race."
— British Empire

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Billy Hughes, 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