Best Quotes by Harold MacMillan (Top 10)
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
Harold MacMillan
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No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold MacMillan
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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
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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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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold MacMillan
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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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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
Harold MacMillan
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I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
Harold MacMillan
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A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan
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History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.
Harold MacMillan
More Harold MacMillan Quotes
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Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
Harold MacMillan
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
Harold MacMillan
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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.
Harold MacMillan
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It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
Harold MacMillan
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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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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
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Harold MacMillan
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You will find the Americans much as 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
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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan
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To be alive at all involves some risk.
Harold MacMillan
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Harold MacMillan