The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
HAROLD WILSONThe only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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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 labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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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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This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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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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[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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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 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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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