"Democratic Socialism is not a middle way between capitalism and Communism. If it were merely that, it would be doomed to failure from the start. It cannot live by borrowed vitality. Its driving power must derive from its own principles and the energy released by them. It is based on the conviction that free men can use free institutions to solve the social and economic problems of the day, if they are given the chance to do so. [You cannot] inject the principles of ethical Socialism into an economy based upon private greed."
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Aneurin Bevan, Speech, Blackpool, 29 November 1959. Quoted in Stuart Thomson, The Dictionary of Labour Quotations, Biteback Publishing, 2013.
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