Quotes from benn tony iii

The word 'socialism' on my poster has not lost me a single vote. People will support you if you're serious. My complaint about the Labour movement is that it hasn't done any teaching for 40 years; it has always been on the defensive. Thatcher was successful because she was a teacher. Her values, of course, were rotten.

Office is something that builds up a man only if he is somebody in his own right.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it.

My legs are very wobbly now. I've always been slightly unsteady on my pins, but I do find myself swaying about a bit and I hope it isn't anything serious, because if I couldn't walk, I would be in a jam. But there will come a moment when I realise my political life is over. My hearing is absolutely completely gone! It's lovely, in the sense that I go along the street and I don't hear any traffic noise, but I don't hear anybody saying anything.

Politicians are bound to indicate what they would hope to do if they are elected to parliament, and that is a perfectly legitimate means of securing support--but they are less ready to admit that it may be impossible to fulfil their commitments once elected.

For those without personal wealth or political authority a trade union card and a ballot paper are the only two routes to political power.

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

If you file your waste-paper basket for 50 years, you have a public library.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution.

Freedom is defended by the ballot box and not by the Division Lobby. If the Liberal Party now says that freedom rests in Parliament instead of seeing itself as the guardian of freedom outside Parliament, no wonder it is a tiny minority.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths.

How can those Christians who see monetarism being so cruelly applied to the old, the sick, the homeless, women, the black community, and the young unemployed, lead a struggle against this injustice from within an established church subject to a Cabinet and a parliamentary majority composed of those very people who are responsible for implementing those very policies?