He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
HAROLD WILSONWe are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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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.
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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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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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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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[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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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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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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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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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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