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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.
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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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Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
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I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.
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The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.
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If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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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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People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.
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I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
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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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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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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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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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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
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If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
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