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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very strong work ethic and that's put a more conservative, "save for a rainy day" mentality into me.
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.
 Benjamin McKenzie
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Quotes from the same author

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