Aneurin Bevan
Aneurin Bevan
Aneurin Bevan, often known as Nye Bevan, was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the post-war Attlee government from 1945 to 1951. The son of a coal miner, Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice, rights of working people, and democratic socialism. He was a long-time Member of Parliament, representing Ebbw Vale in South Wales for 31 years. He was one of the chief spokesmen for the Labour party's left wing, and of...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 November 1897
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opposites statistics pushing
We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
children party moving
I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.
fear sea islands
Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
years gentleman democracy
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
reading made duty
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
suffering poor bureaucracy
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
political listening politics
Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
order political politics
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
democratic-socialism socialism democratic
There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism.
summer struggle cricket-match
He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
political age politics
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
hero people needs
The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
giving political conversation
[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.
leadership party political
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.