I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
HAROLD WILSONIf 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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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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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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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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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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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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