HMHarold Macmillan

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Harold Macmillan

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

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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02Undated

It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.

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03Undated

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.

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04Undated

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

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05Undated

It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.

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06Undated

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

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07Undated

To be alive at all involves some risk.

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08Undated

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

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