top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Government quotes
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
Author Name
Personal Development
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Harold MacMillan
"I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy."
Family
"I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting."
Comfort
"If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough."
God
"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."
Diplomacy
"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
Experience
"No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs."
Man
"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
Skepticism
"It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter."
Government
"Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth."
Growth
"When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away."
Actor
bottom of page