I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
HAROLD WILSONHe who rejects change is the architect of decay.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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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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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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This 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.
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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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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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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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