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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
Politician
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction
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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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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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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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Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.
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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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I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris
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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.
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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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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 am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
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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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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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I am a public library
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It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.
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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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