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.
HAROLD WILSONI 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
-
-
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.
HAROLD WILSON -
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 WILSON -
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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
HAROLD WILSON -
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.
HAROLD WILSON -
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.
HAROLD WILSON -
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.
HAROLD WILSON -
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
HAROLD WILSON -
A week is a long time in politics.
HAROLD WILSON -
If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
HAROLD WILSON -
Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
HAROLD WILSON -
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.
HAROLD WILSON -
Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
HAROLD WILSON -
At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
HAROLD WILSON -
I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
HAROLD WILSON -
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.
HAROLD WILSON