The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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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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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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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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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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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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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