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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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There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
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The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
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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 Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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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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A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
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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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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
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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 NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
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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 Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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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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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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