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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Tony Benn
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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this
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When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, New Labour is a new political party - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.
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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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I am a public library
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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.
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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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If you read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, which I have outside, I bought it when I was eleven, Hitler said, democracy inevitably leads to Marxism - now you work that one out. It's so interesting that when the poor have the vote they will use it to remove the privileges of the rich.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community
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The New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good
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My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
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There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.
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