"You have to give the electorate a tune…" — Enoch Powell
"You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle."
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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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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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More Electorate Quotes
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You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's…
— David Attenborough
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Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of…
— Gary Bauer
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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government…
— George Bernard Shaw
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We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity…
— Unknown Author
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The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the…
— Winston Churchill
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I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should…
— Pier Paolo Pasolini
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My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog.…
— Wendy Harmer
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Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and…
— Unknown Author
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Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.
— Don Aitkin
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Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small…
— Arthur Miller
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The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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