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John Enoch Powell, MBE, foi um político, acadêmico, escritor e poeta britânico. Foi deputado no Partido Conservador do Reino Unido de 1950 a 1974, do Partido Unionista do Ulster de 1974 a 1987, e ministro da Saúde do Reino Unido de 1960 a 1963. Ganhou maior destaque em 1968, quando fez seu controverso discurso, "Rios de Sangue", contra a imigração.

Antes de entrar para a política, foi um catedrático notável, tornando-se um doutor licenciado em grego antigo com apenas 25 anos. Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, desempenhou papeis no Serviço de Inteligência, chegando ao posto de brigadeiro quando tinha, aproximadamente, 30 anos.

Foi também poeta. Seus primeiros trabalhos foram publicados em 1937, tal como numerosos livros políticos e clássicos. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Junho 1912 – 8. Fevereiro 1998   •   Outros nomes Sir John Enoch Powell
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Enoch Powell: Frases em inglês

“Being a nation is, in the last resort, subjective; those who feel they are a nation and behave accordingly are one.”

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The Guardian (4 June 1979), quoted in Simon Heffer, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell (1998), p. 822
1970s

“The devolution debate will be based upon a proposition no less objectively false than to assert that two and two make five. It is the proposition that it is possible to establish one or more local parliaments within the unitary parliamentary state known as the United Kingdom.”

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Speech to the City Conservative Forum in London (12 November 1975), quoted in The Times (13 November 1975), p. 4
1970s

“Could my right hon. Friend explain why the increase in oil prices is deflationary but the increase in all other international prices has apparently been inflationary?”

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Question http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1974/feb/06/industrial-and-economic-situation#column_1232 to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber in the House of Commons (6 February 1974)
1970s

“The monetary belief, or the monetary myth, upon which a whole generation has been reared—that an injection of money into the system is the automatic cure for unemployment—has collapsed in the face of the experience of the past four or five years.”

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Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1971/nov/23/unemployment-1#column_1202 in the House of Commons (23 November 1971)
1970s

“[T]he only realignment of currencies which can be lasting and satisfactory is one which is continuously worked out by a free market.”

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Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1971/nov/23/currency-parities-group-of-ten#column_1110 in the House of Commons (23 November 1971)
1970s