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.
HAROLD WILSONHe who rejects change is the architect of decay.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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 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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.
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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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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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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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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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