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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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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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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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[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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There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
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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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He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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Politics is a blood sport.
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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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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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
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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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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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