"All political lives, unless they are cut off……" — Enoch Powell
"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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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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A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were…
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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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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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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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