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.
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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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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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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[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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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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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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