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Former Financial Secretary to the Treasury

British politician who served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is known for his controversial remarks on racial issues.

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“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.”

“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.”

Men Littles States Past Political Groups Prejudice Lifts Staff Economist Curtains Projection Partisans

Book:Freedom and reality

Source: Freedom and reality

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

Political Sacred Cows Sacred Cows

Book:Still to Decide

Source: Still to Decide

“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.”

Ifs Needs Self Political Nations Sacrifice Highest Independence Governing Disadvantages Estimation

Book:A Nation Or No Nation?: Six Years in British Politics

Source: A Nation Or No Nation?: Six Years in British Politics

“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.”

Humans Ends Political Cutting Affair Political Life Juncture

Author:Enoch Powell

About the Author

Born: June 16, 1912
Died: February 8, 1998
Known for: Former Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Quotes: 52

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