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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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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 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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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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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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The police are controlled by the whites, the media are controlled by the whites, the army's controlled by the whites, what hope is there for change? Administration changes from underneath.
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The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of a sudden you find you're invited to parties. I don't want to be cynical, because I'm not. But I've seen it happen to so many people who move from the left to the right so damn quickly.
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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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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
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Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
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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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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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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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Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
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The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.
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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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