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.
HAROLD WILSONIf 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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 labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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