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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

Aneurin Bevan

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Aneurin Bevan
Age: 62 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 15
Died: 1960
Died: July 6
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Secretary Of State For Health
Trade Unionist
Nye Bevan
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The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.
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No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
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Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
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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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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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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 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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You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
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There can be no immaculate conception of 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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Advertising is 'an evil service'.
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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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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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