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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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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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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 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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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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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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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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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work
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People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.
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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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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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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 Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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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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