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 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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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 office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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.
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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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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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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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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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