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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.
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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Nye Bevan
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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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The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
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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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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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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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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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There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
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Virtue is its own punishment.
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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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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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What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.
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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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Politics is a blood sport.
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I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
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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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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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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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Advertising is 'an evil service'.
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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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