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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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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. – Aneurin Bevan

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

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