Famous quotes containing the words harold macmillan, honourable, harold and/or macmillan:
“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.”
—Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)
“Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal
savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse.”
—Griffin Jay, and Harold Young. Stephen Banning (Dick Foran)
“As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.”
—Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)