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Harold MacMillan has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
• No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
• One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.
• Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.
• Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
• A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene…
• The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.
• Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.
• There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of…
• I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
• It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool
• History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

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