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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
Diarist
Former Member Of The European Parliament
Politician
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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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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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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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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It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
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It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.
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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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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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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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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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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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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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