20 Quotations by Harold Macmillan
- 1. A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the mos ...
- 2. As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately, none of the sound ...
- 3. At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesma ...
- 4. He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
- 5. I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
- 6. I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conf ...
- 7. I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
- 8. If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly no ...
- 9. If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better dec ...
- 10. It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has ...
- 11. Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
- 12. Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapa ...
- 13. Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
- 14. No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed ...
- 15. Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
- 16. Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November it was 28 percent. A rat ...
- 17. The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of natio ...
- 18. To be alive at all involves some risk.
- 19. We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
- 20. You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of Ungentlemanly, Not fa ...
Harold Macmillan Quotes by Power Quotations
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