Enoch Powell

[Graham Weeks]

Some memorable quotes from Enoch Powell,British politician who died
yesterday.

"Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be
mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of
some 50,000 dependants, 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. As I look
ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the
Tiber foaming with much blood."
Birmingham, April 1968

"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?"
1964

" 'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with
sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass."
September 1969

"I was born a Tory, am a Tory and shall die a Tory. I never yet heard
that it was any part of the faith of a Tory to take the institutions and
liberties, the laws and customs which this country has evolved over
centuries and merge them with those of eight other nations into a
new-made artificial state, and what is more to do so without the willing
approbation and consent of the nation."
February 1974

"No one is forced to be a politician. It can only compare with fox
hunting and writing poetry. These are two things that men do for sheer
enjoyment, too."
1973

"There is a mania in legislation in detecting discrimination. But all
life is about discrimination."
Article, 1975

"Office before honour was the password of Conservative Government."
Article in 1977 referring to the 1970-74 Tory administration

"The amateur in politics is the person who is always sure he knows the
result of the next general election."
February 1981

"I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like
returning to one's own vomit."
Article, 1977

"To me the nation is the ultimate political reality. There is no
political reality beyond it. But what it is cannot be determined
scientifically, you cannot pick it up, you cannot measure it."
The Listener, May 1981

"A populist politician is a politician who says things because he
believes them to be popular. At least, that is my understanding of the
term. I have never been that. My worst enemies couldn't say that."
May 1981

"For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain
complaining about the sea."
Guardian article, 1984

"Above any other position of eminence, that of Prime Minister is filled
by fluke."
March 1987

"To pretend that you cannot exchange goods and services freely with a
Frenchman or an Italian unless there is an identical standard of
bathing beaches or tap water in the different countries is not logic. It
is naked aggression."
Article, May 1990

"To be and to remain a member of the House of Commons was the
overriding and undiscussable motivation of my life as a politician."
Article, 1990

"A politician crystallises what most people mean, even if they don't
know it."

Undated

Graham J Weeks
Father Pharmacist Elder Councillor
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[Weiz]

Graham Weeks <wee...@dircon.co.uk> wrote in article
<34DF71...@dircon.co.uk>...

> Some memorable quotes from Enoch Powell,British politician who died
> yesterday.
>
>
> "Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be
> mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of
> some 50,000 dependants, 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. As I look
> ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the
> Tiber foaming with much blood."
> Birmingham, April 1968
>

Me thinks Mr. Enoch stole the punch of his quote from Euripides, the Greek
poet (c. 480 BCE) -
'Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.'

Breezy

--
Don't ring for death.
Knock on his door and run,
He hates that.

[Steve Hatton]

Like him, or loathe him, you really couldn`t ignore him.
I feel he will be sadly missed. RIP.

--
Regards from Steve Hatton, Cornwall, UK.

My ambition is to live forever - so far, so good!

Graham Weeks wrote in message <34DF71...@dircon.co.uk>...

>Some memorable quotes from Enoch Powell,British politician who died
>yesterday.
>
>
> "Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be
> mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of
>some 50,000 dependants, 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. As I look
>ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the
>Tiber foaming with much blood."
> Birmingham, April 1968
>

[Andrew T. Lloyd]

> >Some memorable quotes from Enoch Powell,British politician who died
> >yesterday.
> >

> >ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the
> >Tiber foaming with much blood."
> > Birmingham, April 1968

I re-heard an old story on the radio yesterday dating from the
time when Powell advocated offering 1000 pounds to send all the blacks
in Britain home. It hinges on a quote from a very black man
with a very thick Wolverhampton Black Country accent: "Sounds
like a good deal to me; it only costs 30p home on the bus to
Bilston"

TYFS,
Andrew
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