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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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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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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 way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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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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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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If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.
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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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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.
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