Quotes by Enoch Powell

Enoch Powell

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Humble

Media

Sea

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

Government

Mean

Would Be

As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people – the underlying value of that which is traditional, of that which is prescriptive.

Clever

Important

People

I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

Lasts

Party

Would Be

I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;… but it is erroneous. The nation-state reaches back far into the origins of Europe itself and perhaps beyond. If Europe was not always a Europe of nations, it was always a Europe in which nations existed, and were taken for granted, as a basic form of the State.

Doctrine

Europe

Taken

I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination ‘seeing’, to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, ‘the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.’ How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this ‘international misunderstanding’ challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact… If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

Challenges

Russia

Years

I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen’s courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen’s courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down.

Justice

Men

Queens

If I cannot understand my friend’s silence, I will never get to understand his words.

My Friends

Silence

Silence Is

If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided ‘at all costs’. what is the point of having one?

Cost

Nuclear

Use

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

Irony

Party

Stranger

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Quotes by Enoch Powell

Enoch Powell

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

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

As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people – the underlying value of that which is traditional, of that which is prescriptive.

I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

If I cannot understand my friend’s silence, I will never get to understand his words.

If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided ‘at all costs’. what is the point of having one?

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

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