Aneurin Bevan

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.

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

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

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

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.

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

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.

Politics is a blood sport.

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

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.

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

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