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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 am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
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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 you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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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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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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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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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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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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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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