Harold Macmillan Quotes
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963.
(1894 - 1986)
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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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.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
[Politics]
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I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
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I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
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I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
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If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
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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.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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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.
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It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.
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It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.
[Politics]
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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