Quotes by Harold Wilson

A week is a long time in politics.
– Harold Wilson
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
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
– Harold Wilson
One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
– Harold Wilson
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
– Harold Wilson
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
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
– Harold Wilson