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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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No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
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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 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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Virtue is its own punishment.
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How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.
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There can be no immaculate conception of 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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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
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There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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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 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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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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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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