17 Quotes filtered by Aneurin Bevan
Attlee seemed determined to make a trumpet sound like a train whistle.
Aneurin Bevan
Category: Insulting Labour, Speechmaking
Listening to a speech by Neville Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworths; everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
Aneurin Bevan
Category: Insulting Conservatives, Speechmaking
What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.
Aneurin Bevan 09/02/1947
Category: Health Issues
We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
Aneurin Bevan
Category: Statistics
A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
Aneurin Bevan
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.
Aneurin Bevan 1952
Category: Conservative Party, Wealth, Poverty
The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
Aneurin Bevan 02/1944
Category: Winston Churchill (quotes about)
As one bastard to another I accept your apology.
Aneurin Bevan
To Hugh Dalton
Category: Labour Politicians (quotes about)
If you carry this resolution and follow out its implications...you will send a Foreign Secretary, whoever he may be, naked into the conference chamber...And you call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
Aneurin Bevan 1960
Category: Diplomacy, Party Conferences, Statesmen & Statesmanship, Nuclear Disarmament
No attempt 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.
Aneurin Bevan 05/07/1948
On the inuaguration of the National Health Service
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Insulting Conservatives, Conservative Party
Winston Churchill: I think that at least on this occasion you might have taken the trouble to dress properly.
Aneurin Bevan: Prime Minister, your fly is undone.
Aneurin Bevan 06/1953
Emerging from the Gents at a banquet at Lancaster House in honour of the Queen's Coronation.
Category: Repartee
If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
Aneurin Bevan 16/05/1957
Attacking Harold Macmillan for his involvement in the Suez crisis the previous autumn.
Category: Suez
The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the alter cloth.
Aneurin Bevan
Category: Insulting Conservatives
