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

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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
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.
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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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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 peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.
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Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
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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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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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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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