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

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold MacMillan

To be alive at all involves some risk.
Harold MacMillan

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

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

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

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

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