The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
HAROLD WILSONEvery 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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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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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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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 an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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