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In my early twenties I read all Nietzsche—not just the main works but the minor works as well, all of them, and every scrap of published correspondence. Nietzsche alone of men out of books has a share in the loyalty and affectionate gratitude which otherwise belongs only to living teachers.

— Enoch Powell

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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.

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