Robert Menzies
Robert Menzies
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, PC, QC, FAA, FRS, was Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister to date, at over eighteen years total, his second term of sixteen years being the longest continuous term ever served...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 December 1894
CountryAustralia
thinking wife people
When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".
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One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.
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What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.
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One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.
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Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
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My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.
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A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.
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The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.
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Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any genuine reason for existence. The important thing is to have a faith to live by, and that goes for us in this party.
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I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.
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A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.
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The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.
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Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.
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More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.