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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
Diarist
Former Member Of The European Parliament
Politician
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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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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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
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I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.
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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.
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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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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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There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.
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There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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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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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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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 police are controlled by the whites, the media are controlled by the whites, the army's controlled by the whites, what hope is there for change? Administration changes from underneath.
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It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.
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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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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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Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.
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