I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
HAROLD WILSONWhichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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 …
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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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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.
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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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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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