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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.
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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.
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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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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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If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?
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I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
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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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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.
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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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Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge the permanent officials.
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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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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.
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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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It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously
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