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The greatest enemy that lies in our path in creating the kind of Britain we want to create is conservatism in all its forms. We cannot afford Tory conservatism, with its smug preoccupation, complacently looking on while the rest of the world passes us by.

— Harold Wilson Prime Minister (1964)

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

Prime Minister (1964)

This party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

I've been wading in shit for three months to allow others to indulge their conscience [on the EEC].

Leader of the Opposition (1970)

I have always said about Tony [Benn] that he immatures with age.

Overseas anti-democratic forces have conspired for years to undermine the political position of individuals and parties who have opposed apartheid.

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