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

- Aneurin Bevan

Politics is a blood sport.

- Aneurin Bevan

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

- Aneurin Bevan

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

- Aneurin Bevan

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

- Aneurin Bevan

Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There i…

- Aneurin Bevan

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

- 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 twentie…

- Aneurin Bevan

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

- Aneurin Bevan