Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
HAROLD WILSONThe cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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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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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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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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