Adam Quote by Harold MacMillan

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

— Harold MacMillan

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

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

— Harold MacMillan

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

— Harold MacMillan

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

— Harold MacMillan

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

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

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

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

— Harold MacMillan

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

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

— Harold MacMillan

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