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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
Autobiographer
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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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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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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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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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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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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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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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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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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When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, New Labour is a new political party - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.
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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 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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Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
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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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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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When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?
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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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