Frasi di Harold Macmillan

Lord Maurice Harold Macmillan, I conte di Stockton , è stato un politico inglese.

Esperto di problemi internazionali, propugnatore di una sorta di conservatorismo progressista, mediatore fra il liberalismo anarchico ed il dirigismo, intransigente oppositore del nazi-fascismo, amico personale di Winston Churchill e genero del Duca di Devonshire, occupò cariche della massima importanza nella vita politica inglese del primo dopoguerra in poi.

✵ 10. Febbraio 1894 – 29. Dicembre 1986
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Harold Macmillan: Frasi in inglese

“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
Contesto: 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.

“In the course of some ninety years, the wheel has certainly turned full circle. The Protectionist case, which seemed to most of our fathers and grandfathers so outrageous, even so wicked, has been re-stated and carried to victory. Free Trade, which was almost like a sacred dogma, is in its turn rejected and despised… many acute and energetic minds in the ’forties “looked to the end.” They foresaw what seemed beyond the vision of their rivals— that after the period of expansion would come the period of over-production… [Disraeli] perceived only too clearly the danger of sacrificing everything to speed. Had he lived now, he would not have been surprised. The development of the world on competitive rather than on complementary lines; the growth of economic nationalism; the problems involved in the increasing productivity of labour, both industrial and agricultural; the absence of any new and rapidly developing area offering sufficient attractive opportunities for investment; finally, the heavy ensuing burden of unemployment, in every part of the world— all these phenomena, so constantly in our minds as part of the conditions of crisis, would have seemed to the men of Manchester nothing but a hideous nightmare. Disraeli would have understood them. I think he would have expected them.”

‘Preface’ to Derek Walker-Smith, The Protectionist Case in the 1840s (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1933), pp. vii-viii.
1920s-1950s

“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.
Taken from letters-of-note.com http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/06/it-is-good-thing-to-be-laughed-at.html
1980s

“So there you are – you can see what it is like. The camera's hot, probing eye, these monstrous machines and their attendants – a kind of twentieth century torture chamber, that's what it is. But I must try to forget about that, and imagine that you are sitting here in the room with me.”

"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

“The sale of assets is common with individuals and states when they run into financial difficulties. First, all the Georgian silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the saloon. Then the Canalettos go.”

"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

“It is always a matter of regret from the personal point of view when divergences arise between colleagues, but it is the team that matters and not the individual, and I am quite happy about the strength and the power of the team, and so I thought the best thing to do was to settle up these little local difficulties, and then turn to the wider vision of the Commonwealth.”

"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

“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

“Introducing SuperMac.”

Cartoon by Victor Weisz ("Vicky"), Evening Standard, 6 November 1958.
About

“Events, dear boy, events.”

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

“The masses now took prosperity for granted. ... The country simply did not realize that we were living beyond our income, and would have to pay for it sooner or later.”

Letter to Nigel Nicolson (26 June 1957), quoted in Alistair Horne, Harold Macmillan, Volume II: 1957–1986 (London: Macmillan, 1989), p. 64
Prime Minister

“America is the new Roman empire and we Britons, like the Greeks of old, must teach them how to make it go.”

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
Backbench MP

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