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.
democracy
You don't have a democracy. It's a photocracy.
material people queen subject
There is something about being the subject of the Queen which distinguishes you in a material way from other people
party believe rights
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 the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the socialist panacea.
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.
things-in-life indifference good-things
More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.
leadership effort democracy
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 from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.
love passing-by passings
I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.
country wall successful
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 tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.
party important movement
Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any genuine reason for existence. The important thing is to have a faith to live by, and that goes for us in this party.
party letters thousand
Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
women honest enough
I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.
leadership pieces woods
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 that I am now Prime Minister.