"A little nonsense now and then is not……" — Enoch Powell
"A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes."
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21 Quotes by Enoch Powell
Enoch Powell has 21 quotes on this site.
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History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
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No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
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A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.
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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
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Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.
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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…
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Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard…
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All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is…
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We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who…
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The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
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Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.
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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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