I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
HAROLD WILSON
HAROLD WILSON
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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.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson 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.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson 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.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson 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.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson 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.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson The labour party is like a stage-coach.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson 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.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson 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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