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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.

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
Democracy
Worst
Four
Half
Right
Thing
Tolerated
Years
Honorable
Gentleman

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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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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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Advertising is 'an evil service'.
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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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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There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
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What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.
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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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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
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In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
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Virtue is its own punishment.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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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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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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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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