He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
HAROLD WILSONHe who rejects change is the architect of decay.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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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.
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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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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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