The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
HAROLD WILSONThis 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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 labour party is like a stage-coach.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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