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

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

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

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

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I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

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

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

Harold MacMillan in Wall Street Journal (13 August 1963)
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

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