Harold Wilson
Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSSwas a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 March 1916
acceptance unconditional-love wind
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.
optimist
I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.
change life-changing acceptance
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
party next causes
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.
change life-changing teaching
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
arrived death general handed isolation judge row sentences three
The judge then handed down three sentences of death -- one for each of the victims. After he said it, I was wondering, how are they going to kill me three times? I was transferred to the death row facility. When I arrived at the facility, I was housed in isolation from the general population. I was in shock. I was in a different world.
All these financiers, all the little gnomes in Zurich.