I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
HAROLD WILSONIt is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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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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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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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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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.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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