„Ich möchte leben, denn es gibt noch einige Dinge zu erledigen.“
Letzte Worte, 6. Juli 1960
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“Why read the crystal when he can read the book?”
Hansard, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 468, col. 319.
Speech in the House of Commons, 29 September 1949.
1940s
Kontext: It has been suggested, I think by the hon. Member for East Aberdeenshire (Mr. Boothby) that the most constructive suggestion he could make was to urge an early General Election and a return of a Tory Government in Britain. Why on earth should he want to prophesy what might result from a Tory Government when history has the record for him? Why read the crystal when he can read the book?
“There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism.”
Resignation speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1951/apr/23/mr-aneurin-bevan-statement in the House of Commons (23 April 1951)
1950s
“Damn it all, you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.”
On his position in the Labour Party (c. 1956), quoted in Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan: A Biography, Volume 2 (1973), p. 503
1950s
“I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.”
Interview in The Times (29 March 1960), p. 7
1950s
“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.”
In the Observer, 6 December 1953.
1950s
Speech at the Labour Party Conference (4 October 1957), on unilateral nuclear disarmament.
1950s
In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, 1952), pp. 167-8
1950s
Speech at the Labour Party Conference (4 October 1957), on unilateral nuclear disarmament.
1950s
Daily Herald, 25 May 1945
Speech at Blackpool, 24 May 1945.
1940s
Speech on November 4th at "Law not War" rally in Trafalgar Square, London, during the Suez crisis of 1956.
1950s
Hansard, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 562, cols. 1404-5.
Speech in the House of Commons, 19 December 1956.
1950s
In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, 1952), p. 162
1950s
Tribune Rally, 29 September 1954, in response to Clement Attlee's wish for a non-emotional response to German rearmament. The remark 'desiccated calculating-machine' is often taken as a Bevan jibe against Hugh Gaitskell who became Labour Party leader the following year.
1950s
Hansard, House of Commons 5th series, vol. 381, col. 540.
Speech in the House of Commons, 2 July 1942.
1940s
“There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.”
Oft repeated: see John Campbell "Nye Bevan" (Richard Cohen Books, 1997)
1950s
“Man must first live before he can live abundantly.”
In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, 1952), p. 40
1950s
Hansard, House of Commons 5th series, vol. 402, col. 1559.
Speech in the House of Commons on 2 August 1944.
1940s
speaking in the House of Commons during the reading of the NHS Bill http://www.sochealth.co.uk/resources/national-health-service/the-sma-and-the-foundation-of-the-national-health-service-dr-leslie-hilliard-1980/aneurin-bevan-and-the-foundation-of-the-nhs/bevans-speech-on-the-second-reading-of-the-nhs-bill-30-april-1946/. (30 April 1946)
1940s
In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, 1952), p. 192
1950s
“I stuffed their mouths with gold.”
Around 1948, Nye Bevan engineered a notorious "bribe" to win the support of hospital consultants. The father of the NHS made his famous declaration after he brokered a deal in which consultants were paid handsomely for their NHS work while allowing them to maintain private practices.
Attributed
Quelle: Quote and story in the * Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/jul/03/NHS.politics2, 2 July 2004.
In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, 1952), p. 157
1950s
Tribune, 5 November 1937
1930s
“The Labour Party should oppose the Government arms plan root and branch.”
Tribune, 19 February 1937.
1930s
“The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it.”
Frequently attributed to Bevan as his own words, and sometimes sourced to remarks to NHS patients in 1948 ( example http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/9106880/Read-this-and-prepare-to-fight-for-your-NHS.html), but believed to have been misattributed. The statement was not written down until the television play about Bevan, 'Food for Ravens' by Trevor Griffiths. Griffiths himself attributes it to Bevan: "I have no written source for it, but old Bevanites in the coalfields were saying something like it during the strikes of the 80s and often quoting Nye as the source." ( The truth of Nye Bevan’s words on the NHS https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/02/the-truth-of-nye-bevans-words-on-the-nhs) In the script, a dying Bevan is asked by a young boy if he will be remembered for creating the NHS:
Bevan: Maybe, if it lasts.
Boy: (looking at press cuttings) Says here it will last forever.
Bevan: No such thing as forever, boy. It will last only as long as there's folk with faith left to fight for it.
Food for Ravens https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/volume-1-issue-8-summer-1998/food-for-ravens/ by Marc Karlin.
Misattributed
Hansard, House of Commons 5th series, vol. 346, col. 2139.
Speech in the House of Commons on 4 May 1939 opposing conscription.
1930s
“He refers to a defeat as if it came from God, but a victory as if it came from himself.”
Speaking about Winston Churchill
Attributed
Hansard, House of Commons 5th series, vol 395, columns 1616-1617.
Speech in the House of Commons, 15 December 1943.
1940s
“The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.”
Labour Party Conference, Blackpool 1949
1940s
“Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”
In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, 1952), p. 39
1950s
