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.
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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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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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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 I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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