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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated

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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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle… with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination. – Aneurin Bevan

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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. – Aneurin Bevan

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