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The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.

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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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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've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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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 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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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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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 New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge the permanent officials.
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