Harold Macmillan
Politician
1894-02-10
Quotes by Harold Macmillan
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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To be alive at all involves some risk.
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The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
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Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
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