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The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.

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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
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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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There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
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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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A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
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Advertising is 'an evil service'.
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
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Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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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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There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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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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In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
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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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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
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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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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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