I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
HAROLD WILSONAt home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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[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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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 the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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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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