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 WILSONIn politics a week is a very long time.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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