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1912–1998 England
John Enoch Powell (16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998) was a British politician, classical scholar, author, linguist, soldier, philologist, and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (1950–1974), then Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP (1974–1987), and was Minister of Health (1960–1963).
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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.
Joseph Chamberlain (1977)
Some of us personally witnessed what was done on the continent under that sign and it is a symbol we shall never forget.
It's not impossible but it's difficult, for a non-white person to be British.
The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.
Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.
The analytical faculty is underdeveloped in women.
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 are a cheap price. It is worth living for; it is worth fighting for; and it is worth dying for.
Being a nation is, in the last resort, subjective; those who feel they are a nation and behave accordingly are one.
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."
The 'Rivers of Blood' speech (1968)
I should like to have been killed in the war.
Unlike every other parliament in the world, the parliament of the United Kingdom does not owe its existence to any document or treaty.
Does the right hon. Lady understand—if she does not yet understand she soon will—that the penalty for treachery is to fall into public contempt?
A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.
Could my right hon. Friend explain why the increase in oil prices is deflationary but the increase in all other international prices has apparently been inflationary?
Take parliament out of the history of England and that history itself becomes meaningless.
Mother, with longing ever new
Collected Poems (1990)
It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.
I often find myself in some embarrassment as an Anglican wondering whether I am a Catholic or a Protestant.
The European Community now fills the place in socialist thinking which used to be occupied by the Comintern.
When a man offers to sell you something at less than its market price, it is a pretty good sign that you are about to be swindled.
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