The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
HAROLD WILSONOne man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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 I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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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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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
HAROLD WILSON