Harold Macmillan Quotes
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I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next.
— Harold Macmillan
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
— Harold Macmillan
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
— Harold Macmillan
Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.
— Harold Macmillan
It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.
— Harold Macmillan
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
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
— Harold Macmillan
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
— Harold Macmillan
Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
— Harold Macmillan
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
— Harold Macmillan
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
I'd like that translated, if I may.
— Harold Macmillan
It isn't those who always addressing each other as comrade who necessarily show the most brotherly feelings.
— Harold Macmillan
90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.
— Harold Macmillan
I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
— Harold Macmillan
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
— Harold Macmillan
Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.
— Harold Macmillan
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
— Harold Macmillan
There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers
— Harold Macmillan
After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.
— Harold Macmillan
After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.
— Harold Macmillan
I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.
— Harold Macmillan
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
— Harold Macmillan
One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.
— Harold Macmillan
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
— Harold Macmillan
We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old.
— Harold Macmillan
Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
— Harold Macmillan
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
— Harold Macmillan
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
— Harold Macmillan
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
— Harold Macmillan
You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
— Harold Macmillan
Most of our people have never had it so good.
— Harold Macmillan
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
— Harold Macmillan
It's a good thing to be laughed at. It's better than to be ignored.
— Harold Macmillan
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
— Harold Macmillan
It's no use crying over spilt summits.
— Harold Macmillan
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
— Harold Macmillan
History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.
— Harold Macmillan
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
— Harold Macmillan
The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.
— Harold Macmillan
