Harold MacMillan Quotes

A Successful Current Affairs Television Show Seems To Be More And More A Cross Between A Music Hall Turn And A Scene In A Torture Chamber.

Stop-go Seemed More Sensiblr Than Using The Brake And Accelerator At The Same Time - A Practice That Later Became Fashionable.

Marxism Is Like A Classical Building That Followed The Renaissance; Beautiful In Its Way, But Incapable Of Growth.

At Home, You Always Have To Be A Politician; When You're Abroad, You Almost Feel Yourself A Statesman.

If Ever The Call Comes To Them, The Young Will Go Straight From The Ranks Of The Neutralists Into The Ranks Of He Majesty's Forces, As They Have So Often Done In The Past.

I Was A Sort Of Son To Ike, And It Was The Other Way Round With Kennedy.

Power? It's Like A Dead Sea Fruit. When You Achieve It, There Is Nothing There.

(a Foreign Secretary) Is Forever Poised Between The Cliche And The Indiscretion.

We Do Not Intend To Part From The Americans And We Do Not Intend To Be Satellites. I Am Sure They Do Not Want Us To Be So. The Stronger We Are, The Better Partners We Shall Be; And I Feel Certain That As The Months Pass We Shall Draw Continually Closer Together With Mutual Confidence And Respect.

Once The Bear's Hug Has Got You, It Is Apt To Be For Keeps.

Revolt By All Means, But Only On One Issue At A Time. To Do More Would Be To Confuse The Whips.

It's No Use Crying Over Spilt Summits.