183 Quotes by Tony Benn

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    I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

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    The flag of radicalism 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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    An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.

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    The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

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    When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

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