“Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.”
Harold Macmillan“It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.”
Harold MacMillan“A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.”
Harold MacMillan“It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.”
Harold Macmillan“I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.”
Harold Macmillan“Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.”
Harold Macmillan“Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.”
Harold Macmillan“It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.”
Harold Macmillan“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.”
Harold Macmillan