I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
HAROLD WILSONOver and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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If 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.
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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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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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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[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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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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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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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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