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Week by week, month by month, the House of Commons votes to divest itself of what it had gained through a length of time not much shorter than the history of England itself, the trophies of its past struggles, the prizes of conflicts which will be renowned as long as English history is read.

— 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.

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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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