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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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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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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'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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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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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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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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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?
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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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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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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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