Harold Wilson Quotes
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On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.
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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
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The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
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May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.
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There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.]
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution ... The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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Harold Wilson
- Born: March 11, 1916
- Died: May 24, 1995
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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