Enoch Powell Quotes
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I should like to have been killed in the war.
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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
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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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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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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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It's not impossible but it's difficult, for a non-white person to be British.
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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
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The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.
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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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History is littered with 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 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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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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Integration of races of totally disparate origins and culture is one of the great myths of our time. It has never worked throughout history. The United States lost its only real opportunity of solving its racial problem when it failed after the Civil War to partition the old Confederacy into a 'South Africa' and a 'Liberia'.
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I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [
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I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down.
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I don't think that would be entirely unfair. There are some things which get on one's nerves and some things that don't. And I'm, to use a rather journalistic word, allergic to the things that are typically American. I think that's fairly natural to someone who has just been described as a Tory and is always ready to describe himself as a High Tory.
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To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
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We were dragged into folly by the Americans over Iran. We were dragged into folly by the Americans over Afghanistan. Neither national interest nor moral obligation requires us to be dragged by them into folly over Poland.
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Now I alone sit by the fire,And one remains of three;For two have got their heart's desireAnd left their grief to me.
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Q: Who caused the inflation? A: The Chancellor of the Exchequer. Q: How did he cause it? A: By putting a flood of new money into circulation. Q: Why did he do that? A: To prevent the exchange rate of the pound rising last year. Q: Why did he want to stop it rising? A: To keep level with the Deutschmark. Q: What for? A: To make it easier to join the EMS.
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No battle is worth fighting except the last one.