The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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 ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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 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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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