Harold Macmillan
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"Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton", Order of Merit/OM, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council/PC, Royal Society/FRS was a British Conservative Party (UK)/Conservative politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963.

Nicknamed "Supermac (cartoon)/Supermac" and known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability, Macmillan achieved note before the Second World War as a Tory radical and critic of appeasement. As a child, teenager and later young man, he was an admirer of the policies and leadership of a succession of Liberal Party (UK)/Liberal Prime Ministers, starting with Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who came to power near the end of 1905 when Macmillan was only 11 years old, and then H. H. Asquith, whom he later described as having "intellectual sincerity and moral nobility", and particularly of Asquith's successor, David Lloyd George, whom he regarded as a "man of action", likely to accomplish his goals.

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

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Lets be frank about it; most of our people have never had it so good.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

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

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.