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.
HAROLD WILSONThe labour party is like a stage-coach.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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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 a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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 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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