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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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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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Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.
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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.
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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 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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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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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 peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.
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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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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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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 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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Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
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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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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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Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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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