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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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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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Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.
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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 New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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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 present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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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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I am a public library
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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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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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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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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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