"We must establish on broad and solid foundations a National Health Service. Here let me say that there is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
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Winston Churchill, broadcast (21 March 1943), quoted in The Times (22 March 1943), p. 6
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