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.
HAROLD WILSONIf 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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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 labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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A week is a long time in politics.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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 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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[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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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