Aneurin Bevan Quotes

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

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

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

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.

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

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

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

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

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

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