Quotes by Harold Macmillan

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

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.