87 Quotes by Harold MacMillan

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.

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.

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.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

Lets be frank about it; most of our people have never had it so good