Joseph Cook
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Joseph Cook was an Australian public figure who worked across the roles of politician, diplomat, and trade unionist during his long life.
Born on 7 December 1860 in Silverdale, Cook spent his career engaged in the political and labour affairs of Australia. The facts available do not detail the specific offices he held, the causes he advanced as a trade unionist, or the diplomatic postings he undertook, but his work spanned all three of those distinct spheres of public life.
In recognition of his service, Cook received the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, one of the senior grades of that British order of chivalry. The honour placed him among those whose contributions to public affairs were formally acknowledged at the highest level of that award.
Cook died on 30 July 1947 in Bellevue Hill, having lived to the age of eighty-six. The available record does not name a specific successor, collaborator, or institutional legacy tied to his career, but the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George remains the concrete marker of the formal recognition he received during his lifetime.
Quotes by Joseph Cook
Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God’s own thought into your life.
Woman’s rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman’s right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.
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.
So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
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.
We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.