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In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

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
Germany
England
Died
Democracy
Pernicious
Insulting
Britain

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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 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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If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
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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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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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Virtue is its own punishment.
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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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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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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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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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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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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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He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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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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Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
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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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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
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