Harold Wilson Quotes

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• With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax…
• Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
• The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
• He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
• Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
• The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
• Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
• If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
• I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
• We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
• 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…
• In politics a week is a very long time.
• [Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if…
• 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…
• All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
• We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution ... The Britain that is going to be forged in…
• The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
• I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
• One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

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