I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism. - Enoch Powell

Through my childhood and adolescence the land and the buildings of England and Wales were perceived by me always somehow in a fourth dimension, the dimension of time, as if they were the stage and scenery of the long epic of the English kings. The predominant role of the monarchy and its bearers was as unifiers: they seemed to be the nation-creators, and later the empire-creators, both actively, by force and policy, and passively, as the unifying focus of sentiment and the source of lawful authority.

The plantation of Ulster, right or wrong, wise or unwise, beneficent or not, did take place; neither it nor its consequences can be pretended out of existence. The people of this province are part of the British nation, and the soil of this province is British soil, because the great majority of its inhabitants are so minded.

Powell: The people who think they are the people of this country will be fighting for their country.
Ross: I'm not sure that I understand that. Surely many black people regard themselves as genuinely British.
Powell: People fight for power, people fight for domination.
Ross: And this will be a battle for domination?
Powell: And they try to resist it.
Ross: What do you think the outcome will be?
Powell: Appalling.