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 WILSONThe labour party is like a stage-coach.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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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.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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A week is a long time in politics.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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