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Harold Macmillan (Politician)

If you dont believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I dont think its enough.

— Harold Macmillan god

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 ideas

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

— Harold Macmillan man

To be alive at all involves some risk.

— Harold Macmillan live

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 people

At home, you always have to be a politician; when youre abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

— Harold Macmillan self

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt

— Harold Macmillan people

It is the duty of Her Majestys government neither to flap nor to falter.

— Harold Macmillan men

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance

— Harold Macmillan politics

Its no use crying over spilt summits.

— Harold MacMillan crying

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

— Harold MacMillan growth

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

— Harold MacMillan art

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

— Harold MacMillan man

Once the bears hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

— Harold MacMillan you

Power? Its like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

— Harold MacMillan power

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

— Harold MacMillan will

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

— Harold MacMillan living

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

— Harold MacMillan divine

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

— Harold MacMillan fall

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

— Harold MacMillan forever

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

— Harold MacMillan trust

Britains most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

— Harold MacMillan

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

— Harold MacMillan forever

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

— Harold MacMillan comfort

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

— Harold MacMillan wit

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 you

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts

— Harold Macmillan trust

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

— Harold Macmillan art

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