Aneurin Bevan citations

Resignation speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1951/apr/23/mr-aneurin-bevan-statement in the House of Commons (23 April 1951) <br class="br">1950s

On his position in the Labour Party (c. 1956), quoted in Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan: A Biography, Volume 2 (1973), p. 503
1950s

Interview in The Times (29 March 1960), p. 7
1950s

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

Oft repeated: see John Campbell "Nye Bevan" (Richard Cohen Books, 1997)
1950s

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) <br class="br">1940s

In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, 1952), p. 192
1950s

Around 1948, Nye Bevan engineered a notorious &quot;bribe&quot; 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. <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Source: 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

Tribune, 19 February 1937.
1930s

In Place of Fear, 1952
1950s

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, &#x27;Food for Ravens&#x27; by Trevor Griffiths. Griffiths himself attributes it to Bevan: &quot;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.&quot; ( 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:<br>Bevan: Maybe, if it lasts.<br>Boy: (looking at press cuttings) Says here it will last forever.<br>Bevan: No such thing as forever, boy. It will last only as long as there&#x27;s folk with faith left to fight for it. <br class="br"> Food for Ravens https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/volume-1-issue-8-summer-1998/food-for-ravens/ by Marc Karlin. <br class="br">Misattributed

Hansard, House of Commons 5th series, vol. 346, col. 2139.
Speech in the House of Commons on 4 May 1939 opposing conscription.
1930s

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

Labour Party Conference, Blackpool 1949
1940s

In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, 1952), p. 39
1950s