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Harold Macmillan Quotes

«Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.»
«(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion»
«I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance»
«There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.»
«The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.»
«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.»
«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.»
«Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November [it] was 28 percent. A rather sad end to one's life.»
«Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.»
«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.»
Author: Harold Macmillan | Keywords: indecent

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