42 ordspråk av Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
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Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November [it] was 28 percent. A rather sad end to one's life.
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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
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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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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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To be alive at all involves some risk.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
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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
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