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1 " The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it "
― Aneurin Bevan
2 " 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. "
3 " Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets "
― Aneurin Bevan , In Place of Fear
4 " We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land "
5 " There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party. "
6 " We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over! "
7 " That is why 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 that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. They condemned millions of first-class people to semi-starvation. Now the Tories are pouring out money in propaganda of all sorts and are hoping by this organised sustained mass suggestion to eradicate from our minds all memory of what we went through. But, I warn you young men and women, do not listen to what they are saying now. Do not listen to the seductions of Lord Woolton. He is a very good salesman. If you are selling shoddy stuff you have to be a good salesman. But I warn you they have not changed, or if they have they are slightly worse than they were. "
― Aneurin Bevan , Why Not Trust The Tories?
8 " I read the newspaper avidly.It is my one form of continuous fiction. "
9 " How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the 20th century. "
10 " Virtue is its own punishment. "
11 " We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down. "
12 " The collective principle asserts that ... no society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means. "
13 " The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honourable Gentleman for four and a half years. - MORE The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honourable Gentleman for four and a half years. "
