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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

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
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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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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.
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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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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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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
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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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There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
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The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.
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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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Politics is a blood sport.
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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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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
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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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