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Aneurin Bevan

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No attempt 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.


— Aneurin Bevan


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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.


— Aneurin Bevan


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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.


— Aneurin Bevan


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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.


— Aneurin Bevan


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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.


— Aneurin Bevan


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The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.


— Aneurin Bevan


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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.


— Aneurin Bevan


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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.


— Aneurin Bevan


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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.


— Aneurin Bevan


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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.


— Aneurin Bevan


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The son of a coal miner Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice and the rights of working people. rin]; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the post-war Attlee government from 1945 to 1951 and also the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1959 until his death in 1960.

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