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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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My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
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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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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.
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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 we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
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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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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
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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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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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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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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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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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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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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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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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The New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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