All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
HAROLD WILSONThe Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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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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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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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