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Virtue is its own punishment.

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
Punishment
Virtue
Life

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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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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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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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Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
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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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I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth
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This is my truth, tell me yours.
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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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There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
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