Tony Benn War Quotations
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- All War Quotes
- Sun Tzu
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Winston Churchill
- Abraham Lincoln
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- George W Bush
- Thomas Jefferson
- Carl Von Clausewitz
- Dwight D Eisenhower
- Ronald Reagan
- Noam Chomsky
- Adolf Hitler
- William Shakespeare
- Albert Einstein
- Kurt Vonnegut
- George Orwell
- Douglas Macarthur
- Franklin D Roosevelt
- John F Kennedy
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Thinking Quotes
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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July Quotes
We have been in recess since July, and during that time there have been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the Euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.
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School Quotes
After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I had a letter from the government saying, 'Dear Mr. Benn, will you turn up when you're 17 1/2? We'll give you free food, free clothes, free training, free accommodation, and two shillings, ten pence a day to just kill Germans.' People said, well, if you can have full employment to kill people, why in God's name couldn't you have full employment and good schools, good hospitals, good houses?