Top 26 Quotes by Harold MacMillan

To be alive at all involves some risk.

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

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

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

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

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.

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

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

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

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