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

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

God

Decency

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

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

Harold MacMillan

Government

Action

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

Harold MacMillan

Son

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

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

Harold MacMillan

Indiscretion

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

Harold MacMillan

Indiscretion

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Harold MacMillan

Experience

Man

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.

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

Harold MacMillan

Man

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Harold MacMillan

Actor

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Harold MacMillan

Living

Tradition