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Aneurin Bevan (/əˈnaɪrɪn ˈbɛvən/; Welsh: [aˈnəɨ.rɪn]; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960), often known as Nye Bevan, was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the post-war Attlee ministry from 1945-51. The son of a coal miner, Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice, the rights of working people and democratic socialism. He was a long-time Member of Parliament (MP), 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 left-wing British thought generally. His most famous accomplishment came when, as Minister of Health, he spearheaded the establishment of the National Health Service, which was to provide medical care free at point-of-need to all Britons, regardless of wealth. He resigned when the Attlee government decided to transfer funds from the National Insurance Fund to pay for rearmament. The left-wing group within the party was described as "Bevanite" but he did not control it.

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[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

Gives, Giving, Political, Politics, Spares, Winston

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

Business, Consequently, Duty, Made, Reading

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

Exceed, People, Possessions, Socialist, Want

The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

Battle, Beginning, Country, Fighting, War, Wins

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

Chamberlain, Listening, Place, Political, Speech, Visit

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

Call, Emotional, Political, Politics, Spasm, Statesmanship

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

Chaos, Fear, Islands, Sea, Trade

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

Funny, Humor, Islands, Produce, Same, Time

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

Conception, Immaculate, Immaculate Conception, Socialism

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.

Allow, Children, Machine, Moving, Party, Swayed

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.

Alive, Efficient, Large, Sympathy, War

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

Cabinets, Kick, Two, Way, Ways

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

Actual, Arise, Contrasted, Discontent, Knowledge, Possible

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

Age, Enforced, Experience, Political, Politics, Rule

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Amount, Cajolery, Concerned, Heart, Nhs, Party

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

Bureaucracy, Fellow, Files, Poor, Suffering

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

Democracy, Died, Germany, Insulting, Pernicious

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

Man, Men, Political, Suffering, Winston

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Genius, Labels, Luggage, Political, Putting

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

Afternoon, Brings, Cricket Match, Lazy, Struggle, Summer

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