Enoch Powell

'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and…

— Enoch Powell

I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote…

— Enoch Powell

If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided…

— Enoch Powell

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

— Enoch Powell

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature…

— Enoch Powell

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

— Enoch Powell

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

— Enoch Powell

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

— Enoch Powell

It depends on how you define the word "racialist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and…

— Enoch Powell

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

— Enoch Powell

Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent...…

— Enoch Powell

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

— Enoch Powell

The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of…

— Enoch Powell

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

— Enoch Powell

Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as…

— Enoch Powell

I should like to have been killed in the war.

— Enoch Powell

I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to…

— Enoch Powell

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

— Enoch Powell

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

— Enoch Powell

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

— Enoch Powell

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

— Enoch Powell

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

— Enoch Powell

I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and…

— Enoch Powell

It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin…

— Enoch Powell

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be,…

— Enoch Powell