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There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

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
Hope
Socialism
Democratic
Mankind

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The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
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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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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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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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