Enoch Powell Quotes

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.

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

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

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.

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.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

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

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

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?

I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.

Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

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

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

It is no accident that wherever the State ha taken economic decision away from the citizen, it has deprived him of his other liberties as well.

I should like to have been killed in the war.

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

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

'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.

A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.