77 Quotes by Aneurin Bevan

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

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.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over!

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

The collective principle asserts that ... no society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

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