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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, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many.

  Harold Wilson

  Science, Government, Giving

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• 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 get his licence returned when it falls due.

  Harold Wilson

  Dog, Fall, Taken

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• The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

  Harold Wilson

  Monarchy, Labor, Industry

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• In politics a week is a very long time.

  Harold Wilson

  Time, Long, Politics

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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.

  Harold Wilson

  Party, Political, Politics

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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.

  Harold Wilson

  Men, Design, Ruthlessness

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

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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.

  Harold Wilson

  Christian, Mother, Athlete

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• I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

  Harold Wilson

  Middle, Messy, Muddle

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• If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

  Harold Wilson

  Choices, Salmon, Vinegar

  In 'Observer' 11 November 1962

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• We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution

  Harold Wilson

  Eugenics, Revolution, Socialism

  Speech at Labour Party conference on October 01, 1963. "Labour Party Annual Conference Report, 1963", pp. 139-140, 1963.

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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 relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.]

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  Struggle, Science, Survival

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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.

  Harold Wilson

  Government, House, Majority

  Television broadcast in October 1964 after winning the general election. "Coalitions in British Politics". Book by Robert Blake, p. 99, 1978.

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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. I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.

  Harold Wilson

  Government, Gossip, Benefits

  Speech at a May Day rally in London on May 04, 1969. The Times, p. 1, May 05, 1969.

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