Joseph Cook Quotes

Australia, Politician
December 7, 1860 – July, 30, 1947.

Sir Joseph Cook, GCMG, PC was an Australian politician who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914. He led the Anti-Socialist Party from 1908 to 1909 and the Commonwealth Liberal Party from 1913 to 1917.

Also known as Minister

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

Joseph Cook
The sense of duty pursues us ever.

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- Sense
- Duty
- Pursues

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

Joseph Cook
- Will
- Gratitude
- Grateful
We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

Joseph Cook
- Value
- Interest
- Charity
We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

Joseph Cook
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Joseph Cook
A monarchy is like a man-of-war - bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.

Joseph Cook
Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

Joseph Cook

Only the home can found a state.

Joseph Cook
- Home
- Found
- State
We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

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- Judge
- Make
- Movements