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.
HAROLD WILSONThe Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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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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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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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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