[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
HAROLD WILSONOver 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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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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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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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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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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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