Harold Wilson Quotes

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Teaching

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

  Harold Wilson

  Optimist

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• A week is a long time in politics.

  Harold Wilson

  Long, Political, Politics

  Nigel Rees Sayings of the Century (1984) p. 149

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• The labour party is like a stage-coach. 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 Wilson

  Party, Next, Causes

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• If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

  Harold Wilson

  Years, Eggs, Able

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

  Harold Wilson

  Money, Men, Political

  Harold Wilson (1971). “A personal record: the Labour Government, 1964-1970”

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• The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

  Harold Wilson

  Party, Political, Moral

  Speech at Labour Party Conference 1 Oct. 1962, in The Times 2 Oct. 1962

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• Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

  Harold Wilson

  Should Have, Flying, Chance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.

  Harold Wilson

  Science, Practice, White

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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.

  Harold Wilson

  Unconditional Love, Acceptance, Wind

  Harold Wilson (1971). “A personal record: the Labour Government, 1964-1970”

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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.

  Harold Wilson

  Mean, Pockets, Purses

  Ministerial broadcast, 19 November 1967, in 'The Times' 20 November 1967

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• The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.

  Harold Wilson

  Power, Limits, Belief

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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.

  Harold Wilson

  Knowing, Phrases, Littles

  Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. December 05, 1974.

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• Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

  Harold Wilson

  Sarcastic, Dog, Fun

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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.

  Harold Wilson

  Country, Ambition, Government

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• Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

  Harold Wilson

  Party, Power, Office

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• Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.

  Harold Wilson

  Leader, Steel, Blades

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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.

  Harold Wilson

  Party, Years, Predictions

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• At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister. Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.

  Harold Wilson

  Sleep, Successful, Political

  "The Governance of Britain".

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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.

  Harold Wilson

  Pay, Prime, Ministers

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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.

  Harold Wilson

  Good Night, Believe, Sleep

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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.

  Harold Wilson

  Littles, Hearing, Eras

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• The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.

  Harold Wilson

  Zimbabwe, Might, Matter

  'The Times' 13 January 1966

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• The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

  Harold Wilson

  Monarchy, Labor, Industry

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