The best Quotes by Harold Macmillan

The best Quotes by Harold Macmillan

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit, and unflappability.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
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No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
Everything would get better and better. This was the world I was born in. Suddenly, unexpectedly, one morning in 1914 the whole thing came to an end.
To be alive at all involves some risk.
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.