Aneurin Bevan

Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960), also Nye Bevan, was a Welsh Labour Party politician. He is regarded as one of the most influential left-wing politicians in British history. He is noted for his tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Attlee's government and spearheading the creation of the British National Health Service. He also contributed to the founding of the British welfare state.

Wisdom & Quotes

• We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

- Observer, December 9, 1953

• Politics is a blood sport.

- quoted in Jennie Lee, My Life with Nye

• Righteous people terrify me. - Virtue is its own punishment.

- quoted in Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan

Subhas Chandra Bose