I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth. - Aneurin Bevan

Gaitskell wants to make capitalism work better – but with controls. That’s what makes him so dangerous. He wants capitalism to go on existing – but without the prizes which capitalism earns for itself. Of course this is impossible. It cannot work.

[W]e ought to take pride in the fact that, despite our financial and economic anxieties, we are still able to do the most civilised thing in the world—put the welfare of the sick in front of every other consideration.

No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied aid because of lack of means.