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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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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
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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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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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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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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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The New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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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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When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, New Labour is a new political party - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.
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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 thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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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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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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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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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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If you read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, which I have outside, I bought it when I was eleven, Hitler said, democracy inevitably leads to Marxism - now you work that one out. It's so interesting that when the poor have the vote they will use it to remove the privileges of the rich.
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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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It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.
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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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