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Aneurin Bevan
Age: 62 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 15
Died: 1960
Died: July 6
Politician
Secretary Of State For Health
Trade Unionist
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There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
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The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
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Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
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How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
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You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
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The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
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The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.
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Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
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I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
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