Harold MacMillan Quotes & Sayings
26 most famous Harold MacMillan quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a Scottish politician who passed away on 29 December, 1986.
“A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.”
“Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.”
“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.”
“Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.”
“In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.”
“Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.”
“Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.”
“When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.”
“To be alive at all involves some risk.”
“There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.”
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