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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
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
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This is my truth, tell me yours.
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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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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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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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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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
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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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The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
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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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