Aneurin Bevan

Politician

United Kingdom

1897 - 1960

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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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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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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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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
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