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“A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.”

Book:Reflections

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Reflections

Reflections is a compilation of reflective pieces, likely exploring themes of introspection, personal growth, and philosophical musings. more

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Enoch Powell

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

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Knows Stills States Form Nations Taken Century Taught Europe Doctrine Granted 19th Century Taken 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.”

“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.”

Men Government Action Justice Judgment Court Injustice Queens Legislation Parliament Scoundrels

Author:Enoch Powell

“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.”

“I should like to have been killed in the war.”

Should Has Beens War

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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.”

Looks Seems Blood Rivers Filled Foreboding

Author:Enoch Powell

“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.”

World Choices Kings Standards West Customers East Boundaries Advertising Transition Socialist Charlie Berlin Crossings Uniformity Checkpoints East Berlin West Berlin

Author:Enoch Powell

“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.”

Ifs Wells Lasts Form Force Laughing Military Planets Europe Unions Western Drawing Ghost Conquer Irony Britain Customs Aspire Military Force Western Europe

Author:Enoch Powell

“Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.”

Doe Strikes Lightning

Author:Daniel Boone

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