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.
HAROLD WILSONOne man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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 only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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