He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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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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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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 ZĂĽrich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
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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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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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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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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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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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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.
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