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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
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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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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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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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 am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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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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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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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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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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Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of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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The New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.
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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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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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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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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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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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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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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
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