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.
HAROLD WILSONOn 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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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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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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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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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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 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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