Harold Macmillan

(19 votes)   Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

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

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(6 votes)   Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

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

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(69 votes)   Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

Harold Macmillan
1894-1986, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister

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

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(18 votes)   A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

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

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(15 votes)   He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

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

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

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(15 votes)   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.

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(15 votes)   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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(11 votes)   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.

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

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