Enoch Powell Short Quotes

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No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

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The analytical faculty is underdeveloped in women.

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To see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.

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Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood,

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It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.

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History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

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The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

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A Tory is someone who thinks institutions are wiser than those who operate them.

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Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

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The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

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The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

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For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea.

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I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

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People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

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I was born ambitious, I suppose I shall die ambitious. I can no more change it than the colour of my eyes.

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Anne Brown: How would you like to be remembered?
Enoch Powell: I should like to have been killed in the war.

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In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

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As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."

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Some of us personally witnessed what was done on the continent under that sign and it is a symbol we shall never forget.

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I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.

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To be and to remain a member of the House of Commons was the overriding and undiscussable motivation of my life as a politician.

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There is one thing you can be sure of with the Conservative Party, before anything else – they have a grand sense for where the votes are.

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Does the right hon. Lady understand—if she does not yet understand she soon will—that the penalty for treachery is to fall into public contempt?

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No one is forced to be a politician. It can only compare with fox-hunting and writing poetry. These are two things that men do for sheer enjoyment too.

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It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.

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A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.

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All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

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Command and obedience, Establishment and deference, they're two sides of the same coin. The Establishment is unacknowledged power. It is the power that need not speak its name.

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Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

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She has peaked. I have the feeling of 1945. Mrs Thatcher has never known losing office as Gladstone did and the need to face changing circumstances and clear new obstacles before returning to power.

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