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Harold MacMillan [1894-1986] English

Rank: 101
Politician, Former British Prime Minister

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS was a British Conservative politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 19 October 1963.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.		101
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.	Trust	102
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.		103
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.		104
To be alive at all involves some risk.		105
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.		106
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.	Government	107
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.		108
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.		109
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.		110
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.		111
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.		112
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.		113
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.		114
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.		115
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.		116
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.		117
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.		118
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.		119
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.		120
It's no use crying over spilt summits.		121
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.		122
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.		123
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.		124
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.		125
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.		126

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