All War Represents A Failure Of Diplomacy.

America Is Now The Dominant Force And The Only Countervailing Force Is Europe.

If Democracy Is Destroyed In Britain, It Will Be Not The Communists, Trotskyists Or Subversives But This House Which Threw It Away. The Rights That Are Entrusted To Us Are Not For Us To Give Away. Even If I Agree With Everything That Is Proposed, I Cannot Hand Away Powers Lent To Me For Five Years By The People Of Chesterfield. I Just Could Not Do It. It Would Be Theft Of Public Rights.

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?

Someone Comes Every Morning At Nine O'clock To See If I Am Still Alive. I Do Get Lonely, Yes, But I Have The Children Who Come And See Me. I See All My Children Every Week, And There Are The Grandchildren, Too.

Britain Is The Only Colony In The British Empire And It Is Up To Us Now To Liberate Ourselves.