Author: Harold MacMillan

Quotes

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

- Harold MacMillan

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

- Harold MacMillan

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

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

- Harold MacMillan

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

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

- 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.

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

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

- Harold MacMillan

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

- Harold MacMillan

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

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

- Harold MacMillan

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

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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