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 WILSONEverybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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 labour party is like a stage-coach.
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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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