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What we lack in Government is entrepreneurial ability.
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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Mr Tony Benn welcomes compulsory homework for pensioners.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten.
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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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If you file your waste-paper basket for 50 years, you have a public library.
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Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.
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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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The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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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 we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
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We thought we could put the economy right in five years. We were wrong. It will probably take ten.
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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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Of the influence of Parliament:
Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution.
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The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.
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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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A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for: there is all the difference in the world.
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It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his,
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A quotation is what a speaker wants to say—unlike a soundbite which is all that an interviewer allows you to say.
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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralize them.
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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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I did not enter the Labour Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris.
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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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When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?
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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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Having served for nearly half a century in the House of Commons, I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.
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Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths.
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For those without personal wealth or political authority a trade union card and a ballot paper are the only two routes to political power.
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All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
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Born:
April 3, 1925
Died:
March 14, 2014
(aged 88)
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