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 WILSON[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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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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 ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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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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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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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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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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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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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