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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.
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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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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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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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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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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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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
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I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces
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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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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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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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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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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'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
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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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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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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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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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