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.
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 I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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 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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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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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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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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