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.
HAROLD WILSONThere 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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