There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
- Harold MacMillan
Will, Finger, Might, Trigger
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
- Harold MacMillan
Beautiful, Like, Marxism, Incapable
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
- Harold MacMillan
Government, Brought, British Government
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
- Harold MacMillan
Cocktail, Set, Parties, Memorial
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
- Harold MacMillan
Sleep, Over, Ever, Public Affairs
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
- Harold MacMillan
Actor, Go Away, Falls, Curtain
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
- Harold MacMillan
Purpose, Want, Certainly, Archbishop
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
- Harold MacMillan
Bear, Once, Apt, Hug
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
- Harold MacMillan
Government, Her, Nor, Falter
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
- Harold MacMillan
Kings, Fall, Right, Experts
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
- Harold MacMillan
Role, Most, Britain, Dinosaur
It's no use crying over spilt summits.
- Harold MacMillan
Over, Crying, Use, Spilt
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.
- Harold MacMillan
Grow, Like, Been, Realize
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
- Harold MacMillan
Always, Reports, Read, Press
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.
- Harold MacMillan
Original, Offer, Usual, Unfortunately
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
Think, Very, Indecent, Decency
To be alive at all involves some risk.
- Harold MacMillan
Alive, Some, Involves, Risk
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
- Harold MacMillan
Son, Other, Ike, Kennedy
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
- Harold MacMillan
Living, Means, Does, Tradition
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
- Harold MacMillan
Find, Trusts, Apt, Nobody
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
- Harold MacMillan
Forever, He, Poised, Cliche
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
- Harold MacMillan
Forever, Secretary, Poised, Cliche
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
- Harold MacMillan
Politics, Never, Ever, Criticism
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
- Harold MacMillan
Fruit, Achieve, Like, Sea
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
- Harold MacMillan
Always, Abroad, Statesman, Politician
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
- Harold MacMillan
Trust, Kind, Apt, Trusts
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