“I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;... but it is erroneous. The nation-state reaches back far into the origins of Europe itself and perhaps beyond. If Europe was not always a Europe of nations, it was always a Europe in which nations existed, and were taken for granted, as a basic form of the State.” IfsKnowsStillsStatesFormNationsTakenCenturyTaughtEuropeDoctrineGranted19th CenturyTaken For Granted Author:Enoch Powell
“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.” NeedsSelfStatesFormPoliticalOrderNextPresidentUnitedUnited StatesCrazyNuclearMonstersNightmareQuartersSovietGlobesChasingInterventionUp And DownScenariosPolandArmamentCambodiaSubservienceAbasement Author:Enoch Powell
“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.” MenLittlesStatesPastPoliticalGroupsPrejudiceLiftsStaffEconomistCurtainsProjectionPartisans Book:Freedom and reality Source: Freedom and reality
“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.” WellsStatesDecisionLibertyTakenEconomicCitizensAccidentsDeprived Author:Enoch Powell
“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?” IfsStatesUseUsedCostWeaponsNuclearNuclear WeaponsSecretaryAvoided Author:Enoch Powell
