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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.
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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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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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 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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It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously
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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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There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.
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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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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 have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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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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Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.
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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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The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.
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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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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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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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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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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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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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