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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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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 have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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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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There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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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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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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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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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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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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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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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 am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
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The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.
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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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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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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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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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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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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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