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

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people...

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It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

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

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

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

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Harold Macmillan

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Born: 1894-02-10

Died: 1986-12-29

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton OM PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative politician and publisher who served six years as Prime Minister (1957–1963). As Prime Minister, he worked to decolonize the British Empire in Africa and repair United Kingdom–United States relations after the Suez Crisis. He also led the Conservative Party to accept the post-war consensus of Keynesian economics and the welfare state. However, he was forced to resign by the Profumo affair and France's veto of British entry into the European Economic Community.More