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
bringing pleasing terms worrying
I think in terms of pleasing an audience. Worrying about bringing picketers? I haven't thought of that at all.
inspired involved
She was the first person who got me involved and kind of inspired me,
none
None of them had anything new to say,
fitting mold saw stories
We don't really have the stereotypical coming-out stories this year, ... I don't know if I saw anything fitting that mold or not. If I did, it wasn't very good.
wife relation my-wife
Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
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.
religious men judging
We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.
mediocrity talent tact
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
solitude secret
The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.
pillow dies
Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.
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.
sin
Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it.
thinker persons
A thinker is a person.