Birthday quote

Robert Menzies
Prime Minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and again from 1949 to 1966.

Born: December 20, 1894, Jeparit, Australia
Died: May 15, 1978, Malvern, Australia

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.

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