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Aneurin Bevan

Aneurin "Nye" Bevan was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the post-war Attlee government from 1945 to 1951.

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I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

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

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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

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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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Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

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Virtue is its own punishment.

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You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp.

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