British history Quote by Harold MacMillan Download Open image “Most of our people have never had it so good.” — Harold MacMillan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare British history History Inspirational Love People
Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us.… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Truth is I never had it to begin with, so you can't lose something that you never had. — Sam Marcellin 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
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different, but the result would once again be disaster. What happened in America was really round two of those wars - the civil war of the British Empire, with the Hanoverians playing the part of the… — Simon Schama Copy Share
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay… — David Cannadine Copy Share
In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and… — David Starkey Copy Share
Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship with anyone. He could charm or he could bully; he could give or he could take; he was glad to see his guests arrive and pleased to see them go. Although many people genuinely loved him,… — David Cannadine Copy Share
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to his way… — Russell A. Peck Copy Share Image
No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
