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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
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.
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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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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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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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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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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 we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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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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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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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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The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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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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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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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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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My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
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I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
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The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.
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