Joseph Cook
Joseph Cook
Sir Joseph Cook, GCMGwas an Australian politician and the sixth Prime Minister of Australia. A founding member of the Australian Labor Party, during his early life he worked in the coal mines of his birthplace of Silverdale, in Staffordshire, England, before emigrating to Lithgow, New South Wales, during the late 1880s...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 December 1860
CountryAustralia
christian average evil
What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the forefinger of Mammon; its freight of nominal Christians elegantly moaning meanwhile over the evils of the times, and not at ease unless fanned by eloquence and music, and sprinkled by social adulations into perfumed, unheroic slumber.
missionary commerce
God is making commerce His missionary.
thinker persons
A thinker is a person.
sin
Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it.
hurt war men
A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.
rights track want
Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.
men expression breeding
A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.
manners certain physiognomy
There is a certain physiognomy in manners.
duty pursue
The sense of duty pursues us ever.
mother philosophy able
Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought into your life.
religious men judging
We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.
charity pay realizing
We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.
mediocrity talent tact
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
wife relation my-wife
Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.