Harold Wilson Short Quotes

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Harold Wilson
One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

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I believe that the spirit of Dunkirk will carry us through…to success.

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The trouble is when the old problems reappear I reach for the old solutions.

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If there was one word I could use to identify modern socialism it was science'

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

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I've buried all the hatchets. But I know where I've buried them and I can dig them up if necessary.
Of the Cabinet in 1974

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The one thing we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury, but no one has ever succeeded.

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

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All these financiers, all the little gnomes in Zurich and the other financial centres about whom we keep on hearing.

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I myself have always deprecated…in crisis after crisis, appeals to the Dunkirk spirit as an answer to our problems.

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I know I speak for everyone in these islands, all parties, all our people, when I say to Mr. Smith tonight: "Prime Minister, think again".

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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or out of date methods, on either side of industry.

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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.
Of the Labour Party, 1974

Harold Wilson
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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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.

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

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