Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan - Work Quotes

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Early every morning a van calls to take his brief bag up to the Parliament House, where his papers are trustingly displayed in his box in the public corridor of the Courts and whence they are brought home again after the day's work.

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan
I found ample scope in the work of the tribunals that were open to me, and in the House of Lords, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and the Parliamentary Committee Rooms. I enjoyed a large and varied practice, almost entirely in English cases and cases from the Dominions.

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan
[Voluntary social work] has indeed become a new profession and quite a large number of people now make their livelihood by such work. At the same time the State has expanded its social services beyond all recognition within the space of a single generation and a large part of the produce of taxation is now devoted to every form of social amelioration... I should like to see us less concerned with palliation and more concerned with providing the means whereby our people by self-help, that demoded Victorian virtue, should be able to work out their own salvation, even if in fear and trembling.

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan
Propaganda, [the White Paper] said, "is a work which is peculiarly liable to miscellaneous criticism, since most men are apt to consider themselves born propagandists and are only too willing to point out where the official department fails."

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan