It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
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Harold Macmillan
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.
It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.
You will find the Americans much as 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.
To be alive at all involves some risk.