The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
HAROLD WILSONIf 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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 Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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