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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I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance
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I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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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
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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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Lets be frank about it; most of our people have never had it so good
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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But, my dear boy, it always has been.
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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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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.
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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.
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Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.