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 WILSONThe 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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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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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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