Isaac Isaacs

Isaac Isaacs in 1936

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.

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)