Harold MacMillan Quotes

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

Harold MacMillan



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

Harold MacMillan



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.

Harold MacMillan



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

Harold MacMillan



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

Harold MacMillan



He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

Harold MacMillan



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

Harold MacMillan



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

Harold MacMillan



I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

Harold MacMillan



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

Harold MacMillan



If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

Harold MacMillan