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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
Autobiographer
Diarist
Former Member Of The European Parliament
Politician
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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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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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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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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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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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.
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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of a sudden you find you're invited to parties. I don't want to be cynical, because I'm not. But I've seen it happen to so many people who move from the left to the right so damn quickly.
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No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this
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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'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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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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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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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.
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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, New Labour is a new political party - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.
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It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.
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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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