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I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth

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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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[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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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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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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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
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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 hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
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This is my truth, tell me yours.
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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
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