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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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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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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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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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I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.
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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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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces
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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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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community
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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 opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand
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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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When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.
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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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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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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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