Enoch Powell Quotes

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• History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
• No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
• A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.
• I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
• Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.
• A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it…
• 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…
• Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As…
• 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…
• We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part…
• The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
• Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.
• In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.
• You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.
• The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
• If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
• If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
• I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
• When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.
• To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

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