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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
HAROLD WILSONIf the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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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 Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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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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.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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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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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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