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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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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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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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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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There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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Virtue is its own punishment.
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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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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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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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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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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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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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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A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
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There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
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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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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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