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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
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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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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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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Remember, imperialism is always presented as humanitarian: the white man's burden, the cross going round the world, the poor benighted natives, the sun never sets. . . So you have to be very careful about humanitarianism.
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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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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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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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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 have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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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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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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The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction
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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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It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously
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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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I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
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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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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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The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.
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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 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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