The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
HAROLD WILSONThe cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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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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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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[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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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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