Harold Macmillan

“The wind of change is blowing through this continent, and whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.”

“Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good.”

“Events, my dear boy, events.”

“Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.”

“A statesman is a politician who is held to be right for 10 or 15 years.”

“If people want a sense of purpose, they should get it from their archbishop. They should not get it from their politicians.”

“A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.”

“It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government to maintain the value of the pound.”

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

“We are not going to be deterred by any threats from any quarter.”

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

“It is the unfortunate happening that we are not a member of the European Economic Community.”

“It is a Socialist's duty to be a nuisance.”

“Quietly, almost without being noticed, we are arriving at a situation in which the technical progress has been so enormous that we may be able to abolish poverty.”