If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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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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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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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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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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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.
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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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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[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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