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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

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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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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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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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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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I am a public library
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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 way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?
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When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.
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I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.
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The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.
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When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
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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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Remember, imperialism is always presented as humanitarian: the white man's burden, the cross going round the world, the poor benighted natives, the sun never sets. . . So you have to be very careful about humanitarianism.
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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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