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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 is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
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He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets
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Advertising is 'an evil service'.
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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
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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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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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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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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
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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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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.
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I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
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If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.
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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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