Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
From Harold MacMillan
To be alive at all involves some risk.
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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.
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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