The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
HAROLD WILSONThe Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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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 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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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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