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.
HAROLD WILSONThe 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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