After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. — Harold Macmillan Copy Share Image
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also… — Harold Macmillan Copy Share Image
Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial,… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
