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Politics is a blood sport.

Aneurin Bevan

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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
Nye Bevan
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Blood
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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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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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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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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[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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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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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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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
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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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You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
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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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If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
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Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.
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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 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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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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The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
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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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