Quotes from speeches and talks of the Rt Hon. Enoch Powell, Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West (1950-1974) and South Down (1974-1987).
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Ulster has been in the front line of a ruthless and implacable war waged against the United Kingdom.
September, 1976
The state which undertakes, and is accepted as undertaking, the obligation to meet the general needs of the citizens is particularly vulnerable to violent agitation, for one simple reason - the obligation it has accepted is by its nature unlimited.
February, 1970
'In Britain, they are talking of "putting Britain first".
We in Ulster must see to it that our part of the United Kingdom is not:
Put last,
or dropped out altogether,
or handed over to somebody else.'
Enoch Powell, 1972
Neither it [the plantation of Ulster] nor its consequences can be pretended out of existence.
The people of this province are a part of the British nation, and the soil of this province is British soil, because the great majority of its inhabitants are so minded.
July 1972
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In his last days, unable to take even water, Bishop Guérard des Lauriers received only the Blessed Sacrament as his nourishment.
He died at 3:10am.
Prestiosa in conspectu Domini mors sanctorum ejus.
A price performs one function ... it tells us how the balance of supply and demand for that article or service is related to the supply and demand for all other articles and services.
November, 1966
A society of planned incomes and wages, of planned production and investment, of planned imports and exports, is not a society of free and responsible men and women: it is the servile society, where responsibility has been withdrawn into the hands of the state and its masters.
There is only one price which anyone is "justified" in seeking. That is the price which he considers will give him the best reward for his effort or return on his capital, as the case may be.
November, 1966
The most absurd, and yet the most dangerous claim which is made for Socialism is that it is "humane."
It is not humane to be able to do less good.
April, 1964
A nation which, thanks to free enterprise, extracts the utmost from its opportunities and its productive resources can and will use the product for all manner of common purposes.
April, 1964
Every West Midlands man knows that Robert Jenrick is right about Handsworth. It is what local families have been saying for years.
White families don't visit Handsworth. They just don't. The fault for that does not lie with them, but with those who made it unsafe for them.
For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country.
April, 1968
