Harold MacMillan Quotes

English - Politician | February 10, 1894 - December 29, 1986

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

Harold MacMillan

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It's no use crying over spilt summits.

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

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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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It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

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To be alive at all involves some risk.

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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.

Harold MacMillan

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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.

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.

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

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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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