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Harold MacMillan Quotes
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Type: Politician Quotes Category: English Politician Quotes Date of Birth: February 10, 1894 Date of Death: December 29, 1986 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Harold MacMillan Related Authors: Estelle Morris Jeffrey Archer George Savile William Cobbett Anne Campbell Algernon Sydney Peter Schuyler |
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. Harold MacMillan As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound. Harold MacMillan At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. Harold MacMillan Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. Harold MacMillan He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. Harold MacMillan I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. Harold MacMillan I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. Harold MacMillan I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. Harold MacMillan I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. Harold MacMillan If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians. Harold MacMillan If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough. Harold MacMillan In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. Harold MacMillan It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool. Harold MacMillan It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. Harold MacMillan It's no use crying over spilt summits. Harold MacMillan Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. Harold MacMillan Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. Harold MacMillan No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. Harold MacMillan No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. Harold MacMillan Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps. Harold MacMillan Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there. Harold MacMillan The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. Harold MacMillan There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch. Harold MacMillan To be alive at all involves some risk. Harold MacMillan Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living. Harold MacMillan We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. Harold MacMillan When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. Harold MacMillan |
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