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~ Harold Macmillan Quotes ~
« on: September 03, 2014, 08:34:34 PM »
Harold Macmillan Quotes


Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963.
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963.

Here are some famous quotes by Harold Macmillan. 




To be alive at all involves some risk.
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Re: ~ Harold Macmillan Quotes ~
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2014, 08:35:25 PM »
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2014, 08:35:54 PM »
It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.
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Re: ~ Harold Macmillan Quotes ~
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2014, 08:36:23 PM »
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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Re: ~ Harold Macmillan Quotes ~
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2014, 08:36:49 PM »
It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.
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Re: ~ Harold Macmillan Quotes ~
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2014, 08:37:17 PM »
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.
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Re: ~ Harold Macmillan Quotes ~
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2014, 08:37:45 PM »
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Re: ~ Harold Macmillan Quotes ~
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2014, 08:38:11 PM »
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother if it is both he is twice blessed indeed.
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Re: ~ Harold Macmillan Quotes ~
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2014, 08:38:33 PM »
You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
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