I'm Interested In Language. We Used To Call It The War Office. Then It Became The Ministry Of Defence. We Used To Talk About The Hydrogen Bomb, Now We Talk About A Deterrent. And The Language Is Very Cleverly Constructed To Give The Impression That It's Not What It Is.

-Tony Benn

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I'm Interested In Language. We Used To

Tony Benn

I'm Interested In Language. We Used To Call It The War Office. Then It Became The Ministry Of Defence. We Used To Talk About The Hydrogen Bomb, Now We Talk About A Deterrent. And The Language Is Very Cleverly Constructed To Give The Impression That It's Not What It Is.

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War

Giving

Office

Well, It All Began With Democracy. Before We Had The Vote All The Power Was In The Hands Of Rich People. If You Had Money You Could Get Health Care, Education, Look After Yourself When You Were Old, And What Democracy Did Was To Give The Poor The Vote And It Moved Power From The Marketplace To The Polling Station, From The Wallet...to The Ballot.

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Giving

People