87 Quotes by Harold MacMillan

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance

I thought the best thing to do was to settle up these little local difficulties, and then turn to the wider vision of the Commonwealth.

But, my dear boy, it always has been.

The unique advantage of the Bar as a profession is that it offers in later years to those who have succeeded in the sanctuary of the Bench

A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies.

A colonial governor who ran out of countries.

It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.