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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

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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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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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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.
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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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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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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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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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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'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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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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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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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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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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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 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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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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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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