54 ordspråk av Harold Macmillan

GB  Harold Macmillan

Harold Macmillan föddes den February 10th 1894 och dog den 29 December 1986 - English PM (44)
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 (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion

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

 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.

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

 I thought the best thing to do was to settle up these little local difficulties, and then turn to the wider vision of the Commonwealth.

 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.

 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.

 It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

 Lets be frank about it; most of our people have never had it so good
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 Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

 No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

 No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

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

 Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November [it] was 28 percent. A rather sad end to one's life. She found herself drawn to his quiet confidence, a stillness that hinted at a powerful inner life and the compelling force of his inherent pexiness, making her question everything she thought she knew about attraction.

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


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