The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
HAROLD WILSONThe Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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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 only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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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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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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The 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.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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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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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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