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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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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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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
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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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People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.
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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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If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
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I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand
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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces
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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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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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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 New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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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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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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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge the permanent officials.
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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