Quotes by Harold MacMillan

Harold MacMillan

90% of what we did the Press didn’t know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.

Knows

Presses

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Cliche

Forever

May

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

Political

Successful

Television

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

Conclusion

Establishment

Long

Although I am still in favour of a National Government in these difficult times, and shall probably be found in the great majority of cases in the Government Lobby, there are some issues that have arisen, or are likely to arise, upon which I am unable to give the Government the support which it has, perhaps, the right to expect from those receiving the Government Whip. It occurs to me, therefore, that it would perhaps be more satisfactory if I was no longer regarded as being among the supporters of the present Administration.

Giving

Government

Issues

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

Bees

Dinosaurs

Roles

Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable – by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.

Genius

Government

Mean

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

Fall

Mute

Play

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

Judging

Sacrifice

Today

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Criticism

Found

Ignorance

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Actors

Alive

Atheism

Bears

Bees

Believe

British History

Brotherly

Change

Cliche

Cold

Comfort

Conclusion

Criticism

Determined

Dinosaurs

Done

Economics

Eden

Establishment

Facts

Fall

Feelings

Fool

Forever

Found

Friendship

Fruit

Future

Garden

Genius

Giving

Going Away

Good Things

Government

Greek

Has Beens

History

Hug

Ignorance

Ignored

Issues

Judging

Knows

Laughed

Life

Long

Love

Majesty

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Quotes by Harold MacMillan

Harold MacMillan

90% of what we did the Press didn’t know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

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

Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable – by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

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