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.
HAROLD WILSONThe only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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