Robert Menzies Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.
• Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
• In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.
• We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in…
• I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.
• 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…
• 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…
• Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
• 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…
• 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…
• "I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.
• More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.
• Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.
• Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.
• It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
• A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.
• 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.…

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