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Aneurin Bevan Quotes

Type: Politician   |    Date of Birth: 1897-11-15   |    Year of Death: 1960   |    Nationality: English
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
Aneurin Bevan

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
Aneurin Bevan

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

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin Bevan

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Aneurin Bevan

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Aneurin Bevan

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

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

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
Aneurin Bevan

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.
Aneurin Bevan


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