Aneurin Bevan Messages

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

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.

I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

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

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

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

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