“In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.Harold MacMillan
“I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold MacMillan
“[When asked to identify the greatest challenge for a statesman:] Events, my dear boy, events.Harold MacMillan
“We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.Harold MacMillan
“At home, you always have to be a politician when you’re abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.Harold MacMillan