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| Harold MacMillan
A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies. As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound. At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians. It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool. Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there. Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November it was 28 percent. A rather sad end to one's life. The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of Ungentlemanly, Not fair and all the rest. |
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