Quote by Aneurin Bevan
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. - Aneu

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. – Aneurin Bevan

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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years. – Aneurin Bevan

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It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. – Murray Rothbard

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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white worlds definitions. – James A. Baldwin

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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devils policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. – Herbert Hoover

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