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Not who you're looking for? Others named Robert Menzies: Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (189 · Australian actor · British Army general · New Zealand cricketer (1916-1983)
“At last we are in England. Our journey to Mecca has ended and our minds abandoned to those reflections which can so strangely (unless you remember our traditions and our upbringing) move the souls of those who go "home" to a land they have never seen.”
“The great vice of democracy – a vice which is exacting a bitter retribution from it at this moment – 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 wealth and somebody else’s effort on which we could thrive.”
“The highest production and living standards cannot be achieved without a new and human spirit in the industrial world. No industry can succeed without the co-operation of capital, management and labour. Each must be encouraged. Each must be fairly rewarded. Between the three there must be mutual understanding and respect.”
“Menzies: If I were the Archangel Gabriel, you wouldn't be in my constituency.”
“[O]ne of the consequences of the inevitable pragmatisms of politics is that statesmen cannot afford the luxury of accepting theories as facts.”
“I have had many strange and some bitter experiences in my political life.”
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