Harold Macmillan Quotes

• It’s no use crying over spilt summits.

  Harold Macmillan

• It is the duty of Her Majesty’s government neither to flap nor to falter.

  Harold Macmillan

• 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.

  Harold Macmillan

• If you don’t believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don’t think it’s enough.

  Harold Macmillan

• If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

  Harold Macmillan

• I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

  Harold Macmillan

• I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

  Harold Macmillan

• I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

  Harold Macmillan

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

  Harold Macmillan

• Britain’s most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

  Harold Macmillan

• At home, you always have to be a politician; when you’re abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

  Harold Macmillan

• As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

  Harold Macmillan

• (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

  Harold Macmillan

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

  Harold Macmillan

  Topics in Trust

• No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

  Harold Macmillan

  Topics in Success

Harold Macmillan (35)

Birth:	10th February, 1894
Death:	29th December, 1986
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

Harold Macmillan was born in Belgravia, London, England. He was a British Conservative politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. He was known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability. He served in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. After the war he joined his family business, then entered Parliament in the 1924 General Election, for the northern industrial constituency of Stockton-on-Tees. He served as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Churchill's successor Sir Anthony Eden. When Eden resigned in 1957 after the Suez Crisis, Macmillan succeeded him as Prime Minister. He studied at Balliol College, Summer Fields School, and Eton College.

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