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.
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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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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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.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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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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 ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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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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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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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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On 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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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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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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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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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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