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Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.

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Enoch Powell
Age: 85 †
Born: 1912
Born: June 16
Died: 1998
Died: February 8
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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... [The EEC] is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.
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The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
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As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.
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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.
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It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity.
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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
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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.
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Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.
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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, of that which is prescriptive.
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If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
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The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.
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We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
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A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.
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You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.
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'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.
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It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.
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Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.
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I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.
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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.
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