Aneurin Bevan Quotes
In Place of Fear ch. 1 (1952)
Speech at Manchester, 4 July 1948, in The Times 5 July 1948
David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers
David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
See Hightower 2
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
The Times 29 Mar. 1960
"In Place of Fear". Book by Aneurin Bevan, 1952.
If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1973) vol. 2, ch. 13
In Michael Foot 'Aneurin Bevan' (1973) vol. 2, ch. 11
Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers
Speech at Blackpool 24 May 1945, in Daily Herald 25 May 1945
Speech in the House of Commons, 30 April (1946)
Quoted in Jennie Lee My Life with Nye (1980).