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 WILSONA week is a long time in politics.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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[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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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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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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