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The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

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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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There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
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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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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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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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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
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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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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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This is my truth, tell me yours.
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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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You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
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Virtue is its own punishment.
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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