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.
HAROLD WILSONEverybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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[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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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