Harold Macmillan Quotes

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. - Harold Macmillan

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

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. - Harold Macmillan

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

To be alive at all involves some risk. - Harold Macmillan

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch. - Harold Macmillan

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. - Harold Macmillan

The unique advantage of the Bar as a profession is that it offers in later years to those who have succeeded in the sanctuary of the Bench. - Harold Macmillan

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

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

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