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 WILSONEverybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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 office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
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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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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.
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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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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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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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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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