The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
HAROLD WILSONMay 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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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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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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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 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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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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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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