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 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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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what’s going on.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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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 office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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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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