"Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never……" — Robert Menzies
"Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech."
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19 Quotes by Robert Menzies
Robert Menzies has 19 quotes on this site.
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My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught…
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The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list…
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I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.
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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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In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.
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We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no…
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I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.
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Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are…
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A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible…
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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any…
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The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and…
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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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More Devising Quotes
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements,…
— Xavier Becerra
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It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question;…
— Claude Bernard
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Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that…
— Gene Wolfe
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The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity…
— James Madison
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The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be…
— James Madison
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Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's…
— Janet Morris
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The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment.…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are…
— Robert Menzies
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Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques…
— Unknown Author
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To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that…
— Alan Watts
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