I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
HAROLD WILSONIf the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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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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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
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