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.
HAROLD WILSONWhichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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 only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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 like a stage-coach.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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 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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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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