Quotes by Harold Macmillan

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

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

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of...

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

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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine...

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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are...

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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on...

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

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Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

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