"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."
-Harold MacMillan
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"It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.“
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"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
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"At home, you always have to be a politician when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."
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"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."
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