Quotes by

Harold MacMillan

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. – Harold MacMillan

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan

At home, you always have to be a politician when youre abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. – Harold MacMillan

It is the duty of Her Majestys government neither to flap nor to falter. – Harold MacMillan

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. – Harold MacMillan

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. – Harold MacMillan

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. – Harold MacMillan

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. – Harold MacMillan

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. – Harold MacMillan