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.
HAROLD WILSONI believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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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 Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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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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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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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.
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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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