Harold Macmillan Quotes

You’ve reached the stage where you must decide whether you’re going to be a good writer or a good public servant. You can’t be both.

A man who was alleged to have the rigidity of a poker without its occasional warmth.

First of all the Georgian Silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the salon. Then the Canalettos go.

There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards, and the National Union of Mineworkers.

Are we so sure that with 15 representatives…in NATO, acting under the unanimity rule, the deterrent would continue to deter? There may be one finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

The most striking of all the impressions that I have formed since I left London a month ago is of the strength of African national consciousness. In different places it may take different forms, but it is happening everywhere. The wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, the growth of national consciousness is a political fact.