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Harriet Martineau: 'Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.'

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Harriet Martineau: 'If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.'

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

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Harold MacMillan: 'He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'

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

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

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Harold MacMillan: 'No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.'

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Harold MacMillan: '(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.'

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

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Harold 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.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.'

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