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.
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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The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
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The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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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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[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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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 only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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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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