Quotes by Harold Wilson

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

“One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.”

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

“I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.”

“I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.”

“A week is a long time in politics.”

“One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.”

“In politics a week is a very long time.”

“The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete the patience of a mother the endurance of an early Christian.”

“The monarchy is a labour-intensive industry.”

“The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete the patience of a mother the endurance of an early Christian.”

“The nation yesterday was awaiting a clear, statesmanlike call from the Chancellor of the efforts and, if necessary, the sacrifices that are needed to lift the country out of the perpetual series of...”

“Traders and financiers all over the world had been listening to the Chancellor. For months he had said that if he could not stop the wage claims, the country was facing disaster. Those were his own...”

“We cannot accept that this is a little local matter within the control of South Africa's internal affairs. Oppression, apartheid, and racialism—those are crimes against humanity as a whole.”

“A second devaluation would be regarded all over the world as an acknowledgement of defeat, a recognition that we were not on a springboard, but a slide. I myself have always deprecated—perhaps righ...”

“I have stated these Commonwealth problems in terms of hard economic facts, but I should be the last to disagree with those hon. Members on both sides of the House who put the problem in yesterday's...”

“We all know perfectly well why the Government are standing by their policy of the independent deterrent. The reason is simply prestige, keeping up with our nuclear neighbours. Frankly, we cannot do...”

“This party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.”

“The period of 15 years from the last time we were in Scarborough, in 1960, to the middle of the 1970s, will embrace a period of technical change, particularly in industrial methods, greater than th...”

“In all our plans for the future, we are re-defining and we are re-stating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution. But that revolution cannot become a reality unless we are prepared to ...”