This is my truth, tell me yours.
Aneurin Bevan quote No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred of the Tory party. So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin.
Aneurin Bevan quote We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Aneurin Bevan quote The Govenment has tried everything to solve the problem of the coal industry - semi-starvation, imprisonment, extortion, threats, the supplication of the miner's leaders, and what is the almost omnipotence of Churchill's oratory. All have failed. There is one thing they have not tried. They haven't tried getting rid of the coal owners. For the one truth the Government has not yet learned is .... you can get coal without the coal owners, but you can't get coal without miners.
Aneurin Bevan quote This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
Aneurin Bevan quote I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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Aneurin Bevan quoteHe brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match
Aneurin Bevan quote Biography
Minister of Health in the 1940s who had much to do with the establishment of the NHS
