Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
HAROLD WILSONI’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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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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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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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