Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
HAROLD WILSONI believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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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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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If 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.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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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.
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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 Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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