Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
HAROLD WILSONThis 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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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 an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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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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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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 only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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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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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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