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With this Bill my right hon. Friends continue their pursuit of one of the hoariest futilities in the recorded history of politics, the attempt to use coercion in some form or other to prevent the laws of supply and demand from expressing themselves in terms of prices.

— 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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