Isaac Isaacs

Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, GCB, GCMG, PC, KC (6 August 1855 – 11 February 1948) was an Australian lawyer, politician, and judge who served as the ninth Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1931 to 1936. He had previously served on the High Court of Australia from 1906 to 1931, including as Chief Justice from 1930.

Isaac Isaacs in 1936

Quotes

• Someone has said, "It is not how old you are but how you are old." The way I was old today on my eightieth birthday is that I have just entered the infancy of middle age.
  • Quoted in Bill Wannan, Great Aussie Quotes (Viking O'Neil, 1987) [1982], p. 10

• There is no age more dangerous than old age.
  • On the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. Quoted in his obituary in The Argus (12 February 1948), p. 2

External links

• Palestine: Peace and Prosperity or War and Destruction? Political Zionism: Undemocratic, Unjust, Dangerous (Melbourne: Ramsey Ware Publishing, 1946)