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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.
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 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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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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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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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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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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The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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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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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
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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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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work
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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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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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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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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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Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.
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