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.
HAROLD WILSONThe labour party is like a stage-coach.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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 Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.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.
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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 office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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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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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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.
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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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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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