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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
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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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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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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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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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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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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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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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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The New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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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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Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of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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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 now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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A faith is something you die for a doctrine is something you kill for there is all the difference in the world.
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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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