Quotes by Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn

I am against the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

The [pay] policy is principally designed to hold down wages rather than to check inflation. Inflation is being used as an excuse to destroy free trade union bargaining.

The engineers are taking their stand on grounds of conscience...Conscientious objection to the law is not a criminal act. These people are our people and we should take a principled stand, together.

People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and training will be better. That is rubbish. It is part of the attempt to consolidate the EEC.

The Labour Party's never been a socialist party, but it's always had socialists in it, just as there are some Christians in the Church, it's an exact parallel.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

Men who would rather go to jail than betray what they believe to be their duty to their fellow workers and the principles which they hold.

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.

Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.

We want industry to be in the public sector, to change the power structure of our society...We have not yet carved out of public enterprise a wide enough area of management decision which ought properly to be brought within the ambit of the workers themselves.

The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.

It will enable a Labour Government to do all they want under Labour's Programme for Britain...It will give us the powers to control all the oil companies, all the multinationals, to fix their prices and their distribution systems.