Aneurin Bevan Political Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

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

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 altar cloth.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

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.

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.