Ernest Bevin

“The first thing to do is to be a good animal.”

“Aneurin Bevan enjoys shimmering in the dark... if he is not shimmering he is sulking.”

“My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please.”

“Generations of propagandists have created the image of the capitalist as a fat man with a big cigar. This is a caricature.”

“It is placing the head of a dictator on the shoulders of a democrat.”

“If you open that Pandora's box, you never know what Trojan horses will jump out.”

“There has never been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented.”

“The most conservative man in the world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.”

“We have got to have a spiritual regeneration. The material conception of life has been the curse of this country.”

“They say that he is his own worst enemy. I am a great believer in that.”

“My foreign policy is based on the unshakeable foundation of the British Empire.”

“I am not one of those who believe that the only way to get peace is to talk about it.”