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.
HAROLD WILSONDebating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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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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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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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 only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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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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