It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

- Robert Menzies

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

- Robert Menzies

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

- Robert Menzies

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

- Robert Menzies

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

- Robert Menzies

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 exist…

- Robert Menzies

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

- Robert Menzies

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

- Robert Menzies

The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, th…

- Robert Menzies