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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
Politician
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this
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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.
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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 Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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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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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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When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?
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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 now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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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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