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.
HAROLD WILSONThe office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of ZĂĽrich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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 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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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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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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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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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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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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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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