Enoch Powell
Enoch Powell
John Enoch Powell, MBEwas a British politician, classical scholar, linguist, and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament, Ulster Unionist PartyMP, and Minister of Health...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 June 1912
believe heart world
Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.
littles sometimes politician
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.
race knows happens
It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.
party would-be lasts
I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.
government coward blind
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.
russia years challenges
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.
giving politics tunes
You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.
evil function supreme
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
queens men justice
I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down.
mean government would-be
A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.
government achievement decision
When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.
humble media sea
A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.
betrayal depth exhibitions
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.
taken decision liberty
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.