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John Enoch Powell MBE (16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998) was a British politician, classical scholar, philologist and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP, 1950–74), Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP (1974–87), and Minister of Health (1960–63).

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

Imagination, Largely, Life, Men, Nigeria Independence

I should like to have been killed in the war.

Has Beens, Killed, Like, Should, War

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.

Good, Independence, Political, Price, Sacrifice, Self

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

Complaining, Humble, Media, Sailor, Sea

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

Ahead, Blood, Foreboding, Looks, Rivers, Tiber

I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.

Born, Fighting, Nazi, Nazism, Shouted

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

Inspirational, Life, Media, Politicians, Sailors, Sea

As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people the underlying value of that which is traditional, that which is prescriptive.

Clever, Escaped, File, Important, People, Prescriptive

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

Mistake, People, Predicting, Trouble, Troubles

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.

Blind, Coward, Cowards, Government, Lynch

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?

Cost, Costs, Nuclear, State, Use

I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.

Betrayal, England, Honour, Lasts, Lower, Manner

Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;. . . our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;. . . we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario. . . We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States.

Crazy, Everywhere, Inconceivable, Order, Self, Simply

Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent. . . It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land.

Caught, Entire, Eye, Land, Originated, Race

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Advertising, Business, Enemies, Enemy, Freedom

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

Cows, Education, Political, Sacred

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

Battle, Casinos, Except, Fighting, Worth

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

Electorate, Giving, Politics, Tune, Tunes, Whistle

It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at.

Britain, Drawing, Europe, Military, Western

I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom. ' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact. . . If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

Challenges, Objectively, Russia, Seeing, Slothful, Years

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