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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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