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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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438 |
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AUTHOR:
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Harold Macmillan (1894–1986) |
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QUOTATION:
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A Foreign Secretary—and this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretary—is always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliché and the indiscretion. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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HAROLD MACMILLAN, secretary of state for foreign affairs, remarks in the House of Commons, July 27, 1955.—Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), House of Commons Official Report, vol. 544, col. 1301. |
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SUBJECTS:
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Diplomacy |
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