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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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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
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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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There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth
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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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In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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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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Advertising is 'an evil service'.
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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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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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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