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Enoch Powell

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Also known as J. Enoch Powell

British politician (1912–1998)

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Enoch Powell (1912–1998) was a British politician, linguist, poet, and writer. Born in Birmingham, he was educated at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and served as a member of the Conservative Party and the Ulster Unionist Party. He held the position of Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and was a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. Powell served in the British Army during World War II and was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire. He was an Anglican and suffered from Parkinson's disease.

His literary works include *Centralization*, *Dancer's end and The wedding gift*, *Change is our ally*, *First poems*, and *Plans for churches*. His archives are held at the National Library of Wales. Powell is buried in Warwickshire.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1912
Died
1998
Works
55

Top works

  • Centralization
  • Dancer's end and The wedding gift
  • Change is our ally
  • First poems
  • Plans for churches

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Brazil
Active from
1937-08-06
Active to
2000-09-26
bossa novajazzlatinlatin jazzsamba-jazz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
16
Total plays
67

Tags

britishspeechesnationalistPatriottory

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Quotes

  • The world has recently been treated for nearly a decade to the unusual spectacle of a great empire deliberately taking every possible step to secure its own destruction, because its citizens were so obsessed by prejudice, or incapable of thinking for themselves, as never to perform the few logical steps necessary for proving that they would shortly be involved in a guerre à outrance, which could be neither averted nor escaped.
  • I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.
  • It is no accident that the Labour Party of 1964 should share this craving for autarchy, for economic self-sufficiency, with the pre-war Fascist régimes and the present-day Communist states. They are all at heart totalitarian.
  • In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.
  • The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.
  • 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.

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Key facts

Leader
Edward Heath
Preceded by
Peter Thorneycroft
Succeeded by
Reginald Maudling
Prime minister
Harold Macmillan

via Wikipedia infobox

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Personal details BornJohn Enoch Powell (1912-06-16)16 June 1912 Birmingham, England

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