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
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Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
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There is something about being the subject of the Queen which distinguishes you in a material way from other people
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You don't have a democracy. It's a photocracy.
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I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.
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Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.
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In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.
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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
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Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.
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The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
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I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.
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Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
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Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.