A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
Harold MacMillan
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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.
Harold MacMillan
3
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Harold MacMillan
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Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
Harold MacMillan
5
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold MacMillan
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I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
Harold MacMillan
8
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
Harold MacMillan
9
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
Harold MacMillan
10
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
11
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
12
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
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
Harold MacMillan
15
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold MacMillan
16
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
Harold MacMillan
17
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
Harold MacMillan
18
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Harold MacMillan
19
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
20
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
Harold MacMillan
