“My Darling Heather,

I write to you at a time when I think I have never felt worse about politics.  The idiots who now run the Liberal Party drive me right round the bend …. But, of course, the main trouble is that we have the State Executive of the Liberal Party, which is dominated by what they now call ‘Liberals with a small l’ – that is to say Liberals who believe in nothing but who will believe in anything if they think it is worth a few votes.  The whole thing is quite tragic.”

– Sir Robert Menzies, Letter to his Daughter, 8th of April 1974