Harold Macmillan

Quotes by Harold Macmillan

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963

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Popular Quotes

“To be alive at all involves some risk.”

“Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.”

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

“It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.”

“It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.”

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

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“A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.”
— Harold MacMillan
Man Nobody Kind

“It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.”
— Harold MacMillan
Her Duty Nor

“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
america americans

“Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.”
— Harold Macmillan
habit tradition

“Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.”
— Harold Macmillan
life death

“It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.”
— Harold Macmillan
politics

“I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.”
— Harold Macmillan
politics

“To be alive at all involves some risk.”
— Harold Macmillan
risks

“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
america americans

“Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.”
— Harold Macmillan
habit tradition

“It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.”
— Harold Macmillan
politics

“I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.”
— Harold Macmillan
politics