The purpose of getting power ...

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
 Aneurin Bevan

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Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.
 Jennifer Lawrence
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
 Harriet Tubman
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
 William Ellery Channing
You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.
 Aneurin Bevan
I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.
 Aneurin Bevan
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
 Aneurin Bevan
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
 Aneurin Bevan
If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
 Aneurin Bevan