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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
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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
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The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
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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 Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.
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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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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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