Harold MacMillan

I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next.

— Harold MacMillan

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

— Harold MacMillan

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

— Harold MacMillan

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

— Harold MacMillan

Most of our people have never had it so good.

— Harold MacMillan

“Deberíamos usar el pasado como trampolín y no como sofá.”

— Harold Macmillan

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

— Harold MacMillan

I'd like that translated, if I may.

— Harold MacMillan

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

— Harold MacMillan

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

— Harold MacMillan

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

— Harold MacMillan

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

— Harold MacMillan

90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.

— Harold MacMillan

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

— Harold MacMillan

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

— Harold MacMillan

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

— Harold MacMillan

“I'd like that translated if I may. British Prime Minster Harold Macmillan on Nikita Khruschev's shoe banging at the UN General Assembly…

— Harold Macmillan

Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is…

— Harold MacMillan

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent.…

— Harold MacMillan

If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of…

— Harold MacMillan

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

— Harold MacMillan

It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this…

— Harold MacMillan

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

— Harold MacMillan

I will not be able to carry the physical burden of leading the Party at the next general election. I hope it…

— Harold MacMillan

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can…

— Harold MacMillan

We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do…

— Harold MacMillan

Although I am still in favour of a National Government in these difficult times, and shall probably be found in the great…

— Harold MacMillan

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

— Harold MacMillan

To be alive at all involves some risk.

— Harold MacMillan

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

— Harold MacMillan

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

— Harold MacMillan

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

— Harold MacMillan

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

— Harold MacMillan

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

— Harold MacMillan

One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.

— Harold MacMillan

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

— Harold MacMillan

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

— Harold MacMillan

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

— Harold MacMillan

It isn't those who always addressing each other as comrade who necessarily show the most brotherly feelings.

— Harold MacMillan

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

— Harold MacMillan