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
analyzed forget genius men posterity remember rest
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.
business men class
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 a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.
country successful men
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.
men thinking two
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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There is something about being the subject of the Queen which distinguishes you in a material way from other people
democracy
You don't have a democracy. It's a photocracy.
act instead pay says virtue
I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.
pay virtue taxes
"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.
party remarkable contempt
In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.
new-york two san-francisco
Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.
women honest enough
I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.
party letters thousand
Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
company considering surprising
Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.
may lasts tough
A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .