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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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Aneurin Bevan
Age: 62 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 15
Died: 1960
Died: July 6
Politician
Secretary Of State For Health
Trade Unionist
Nye Bevan
Four
Half
Right
Thing
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Honorable
Gentleman
Democracy
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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 hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
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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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No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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