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.
HAROLD WILSONThe Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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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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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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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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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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It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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