Henry Martyn Robert Quotes
It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.
Robert, Henry M. Parliamentary Practice: An Introduction to Parliamentary Law. The Century Co., 1921, p. xiv.
In 1974 President Richard Nixon resigned, and President Ford was required to name a successor as Vice President. The Ugandan President urged the selection of a Black:
These three principles not only were the philosophical and political lynchpins of the Chinese Republican efforts but were incorporated into the first line of the national anthem of the Republic of China which became the government of Taiwan when the Chinese Communists won the mainland and the rest of China. The nationalists only delivered one of the three: Nationalism and that with much corruption. The Communists delivered two with less corruption and thus won China.
Henry Martyn Robert was an American soldier, engineer, and author. In 1876, Robert published the first edition of his manual of parliamentary procedure, Robert's Rules of Order, which remains today the most common parliamentary authority in the United States.
