Quotation by Aneurin Bevan

His ear is so sensitively attuned to the bugle note of history that he is often deaf to the more raucous clamour of contemporary life.
Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960), British Labour politician. Quoted in Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan, vol. 1, ch. 10 (1962).
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