We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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 going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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