{"id":8177,"date":"2016-05-13T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=8177"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:25:04","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Harold_Macmillan_10_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=8177","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Harold Macmillan (10 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1894-1986, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister<\/b><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Harold Macmillan – [Politicians and Politics<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.<\/div>\n
Harold Macmillan – [Politicians and Politics<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Harold Macmillan – [Atheism<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Harold Macmillan – [Fools and Foolishness<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.<\/div>\n
Harold Macmillan – [Negotiation<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.<\/div>\n
Harold Macmillan – [Marxism<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.<\/div>\n
Harold Macmillan – [Funerals<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.<\/div>\n
Harold Macmillan – [Power<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.<\/div>\n
Harold Macmillan – [Change<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.<\/div>\n
Harold Macmillan – [Experts<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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