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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

Tony Benn

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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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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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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?
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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'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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If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
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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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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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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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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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