Aneurin Bevan

"No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means."

— Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)

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

— Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)

"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 (1897-1960)

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

— Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)

"The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do."

— Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)

"Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual."

— Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)

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

— Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)

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

— Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)

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

— Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)

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

— Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)

“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”

— Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)