Harold Wilson
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"James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx", was a British people/British Labour Party (UK)/Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976. He won four United Kingdom general elections/general elections, and is the most recent British Prime Minister to have served non-consecutive terms.

First entering Parliament of the United Kingdom/Parliament in United Kingdom general election, 1945/1945, Wilson was immediately appointed the Parliamentary Secretary/Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)/Ministry of Works and rose quickly through the ministerial ranks, becoming the Secretary for Overseas Trade in 1947 and being appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom/Cabinet just months later as the President of the Board of Trade. Later, in the Shadow Cabinet of the United Kingdom/Labour Shadow Cabinet, he served first as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1955 to 1961 and then as the Shadow Foreign Secretary from 1961 to 1963, when he was elected Leader of the Labour Party (UK)/Leader of the Labour Party after the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell. Wilson narrowly won the United Kingdom general election, 1964/1964 election, going on to win a much increased majority in a snap United Kingdom general election, 1966/1966 election.

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

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

A week is a long time in politics.

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.

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

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

I have not always in my dealings with General de Gaulle found quotations from Trafalgar and Waterloo necessarily productive, and he has been very tactful about the Battle of Hastings.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

I see no need for a Royal Commission [on trade unions] which will take minutes and waste years.