He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
HAROLD WILSONI’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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A week is a long time in politics.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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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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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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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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