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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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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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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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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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When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, New Labour is a new political party - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.
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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 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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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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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 am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.
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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 we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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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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Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work
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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths
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