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 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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase ‘freedom of the press’ used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.
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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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 ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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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 the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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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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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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