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When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

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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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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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