Harold MacMillan

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

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

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

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

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

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