Harold MacMillan
Harold MacMillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRSwas a British Conservative politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 19 October 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac," he was known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth10 February 1894
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Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
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If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
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I'd like that translated, if I may.
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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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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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A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies.
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A colonial governor who ran out of countries.
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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
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You will find the Americans much like 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