Harold MacMillan
Harold MacMillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRSwas a British Conservative politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 19 October 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac," he was known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth10 February 1894
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A colonial governor who ran out of countries.
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You will find the Americans much like 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
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A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies.
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I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance
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Lets be frank about it; most of our people have never had it so good
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But, my dear boy, it always has been.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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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.
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I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.
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The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.
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One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.
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Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
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To be alive at all involves some risk.
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.