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Enoch Powell 1912–98
British Conservative politician 

  1. History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
    speech to the Conservative Party Conference, 19 October 1967
  2. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood’.
    on the probable consequences of immigration
    speech in Birmingham, 20 April 1968; see Virgil
  3. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
    interview in Sunday Times 6 November 1977
  4. For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea.
    in Guardian 3 December 1984
  5. 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.
    Joseph Chamberlain (1977)