Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.
Harold MacMillanI read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
Harold MacMillanI was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
Harold MacMillanA Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan