"It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors."

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Source : "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 53), 1999.

Enoch Powell

#Government Quotes #Coward Quotes #Blind Quotes

“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.”
“I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, "Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person," or "I remember what that day felt like."”

Source : Source: www.teenvogue.com
“If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough.”
“I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.”
“People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.”
“If you are to use Alexander Graham Bellâ€™s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would have wished; and Dr Bell insisted that all phone calls should begin with the words â€˜Ahoy, ahoyâ€™. Nobody knows why he insisted this â€“ he had no connection to the navy â€“ but insist he did and started every phone call that way. Nobody else did, and it was at the suggestion of his great rival Edison that people took to saying â€˜Helloâ€™. This seems unfair.”

Source : Mark Forsyth (2012). “Mark Forysth's Gemel Edition: The Etymologicon and The Horologicon ebook bundle”, p.334, Icon Books Ltd
“Age affects how people experience time.”
“Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.”

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