I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
HAROLD WILSONFrom 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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 believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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