As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
Harold MacMillan
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You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies.
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
It's no use crying over spilt summits.
Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November it was 28 percent. A rather sad end to one's life.
The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
To be alive at all involves some risk.
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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