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.
HAROLD WILSONThe ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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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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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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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’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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