Harold Macmillan OM brit konzervatív politikus, 1957 és 1963 között az Egyesült Királyság miniszterelnöke. Wikipedia
“I'd like that translated, if I may.”
"Mr Macmillan seeks end to world fear", The Times, 30 September 1960, p. 12.
Macmillan's reaction at the United Nations General Assembly when Nikita Khrushchev started shouting and banging his shoe on the desk in protest at something in Macmillan's speech.
1960s
“The wind of change is blowing through this continent”
"Mr Macmillan's appeal to South Africans", The Times, 4 February 1960, p. 15.
Speech to the South African Parliament, 3 February 1960.
1960s
Kontextus: The most striking of all the impressions I have formed since I left London a month ago is of the strength of this African national consciousness. In different places it may take different forms but it is happening everywhere. The wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept it as a fact.
"Great Parliamentary Speeches" CD.
Maiden speech in the House of Lords, 13 November 1984.
1980s
Harold Macmillan (1966) Winds of change, 1914-1939. p. 266 as cited in Brian Vickery (2005) "Coming of age in the 1930s" ( online http://web.archive.org/web/20080531130709/http://www.lucis.me.uk/thirties.htm at archive.org) <br class="br">1960s
‘Preface’ to Derek Walker-Smith, The Protectionist Case in the 1840s (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1933), pp. vii-viii.
1920s-1950s
Hansard, House of Lords, 5th series, vol. 468, cols. 390-1.
Speech in the House of Lords, 14 November 1985.
1980s
“It's a good thing to be laughed at. It's better than to be ignored.”
In a handwritten note to the Postmaster General, who wanted to take action against "That Was The Week That Was", a satirical program. <br class="br">Taken from letters-of-note.com http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/06/it-is-good-thing-to-be-laughed-at.html <br class="br">1980s
"Call for 'A little extra effort'", The Times, 25 January 1962, p. 6.
Opening to Conservative Party political broadcast (24 January 1962), quoted in "Call for 'A little extra effort'", The Times (25 January 1962), p. 6 Macmillan decided to open by showing the television outside broadcast crew who had set up their equipment.
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Harold Macmillan / Quotes / Prime Minister
1960s
"Mr H. Macmillan M.P.", The Times, 8 July 1936, p. 8.
Letter written on 29 June 1936 resigning the Government whip.
1920s-1950s
letter to his mother, May 13, 1916
1910s
"Stockton attacks Thatcher policies", The Times, 9 November 1985, p. 1.
Speech to the Tory Reform Group, 8 November 1985. Often quoted as "selling off the family silver".
1980s
“Forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion.”
Newsweek, 30 April 1956.
Macmillan's description of the role of the Foreign Secretary, a job he held in 1955.
1920s-1950s
"Mr Macmillan sets out", The Times, 8 January 1958, p. 8
Statement to the press at Heathrow Airport, 7 January 1958. Macmillan was refusing to postpone a Commonwealth tour despite the resignation of the entire Treasury team of ministers.
1920s-1950s
“Indeed, let us be frank about it. Most of our people have never had it so good.”
"More production 'the only answer' to inflation", The Times, 22 July 1957, p. 4.
Speech at Bedford, 20 July 1957.
1920s-1950s
"Mr Macmillan Denies Threat to Britain's Sovereignty", The Times, 15 October 1962, p. 6.
Speech to the Conservative Party conference, Blackpool, 13 October 1962, having some fun at the expense of the opposition Labour Party.
1960s
Speech ('The Future of Conservatism') to the 1912 Club (16 February 1926), quoted in The Times (18 February 1926), p. 9.
1920s-1950s
“Nonsense, there are no clubs around Victoria.”
Strange Days: Cold War Britain
Reacting to the charge that state secrets were being sold in clubs around Victoria.
1920s-1950s
Cartoon by Victor Weisz ("Vicky"), Evening Standard, 6 November 1958.
About
Response to a journalist when asked what is most likely to blow governments off course.
The quote is also given as "Events, my dear boy, events", with the word "my", but it may never have been uttered at all.
[What they didn't say: a book of misquotations, Knowles, Elizabeth M., Oxford University Press, 2006, vi, 33]
Disputed
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1986/jan/21/shops-bill-hl-1#column_159 in the House of Lords (21 January 1986) on the Shops Bill that would have ended government regulation of Sunday shopping in England and Wales <br class="br">Later life
Speech to the South African Parliament (3 February 1960), quoted i.a. in "Mr Macmillan's appeal to South Africans", The Times (4 February 1960), p. 15
Prime Minister
Speech at Bedford (20 July 1957), quoted in "More production 'the only answer' to inflation", The Times (22 July 1957), p. 4
Prime Minister
Speech at Bedford (20 July 1957), quoted in "More production 'the only answer' to inflation", The Times (22 July 1957), p. 4
Prime Minister
Letter to Nigel Nicolson (26 June 1957), quoted in Alistair Horne, Harold Macmillan, Volume II: 1957–1986 (London: Macmillan, 1989), p. 64
Prime Minister
Speech in Newcastle (25 May 1956), quoted in The Times (26 May 1956), p. 6
Chancellor of the Exchequer
America's lost ally https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americas-lost-ally/2011/08/16/gIQAYxy8LJ_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.763aa617ae9b, During the Second World War <br class="br">Backbench MP
