As I watch and listen to the voices that are raised to persuade electors to surrender their own birthright because they fear their fellow subjects, I… - Enoch Powell

The creative forces in a nation lie in the people themselves—in their determination, their effort, their hopefulness, their thrift, their readiness to venture and to change. Only in proportion as they show and apply those qualities can the economy advance. The truly creative policies are the policies which enable the nation to put forth the effort and to take the decisions upon which, alone, the rate of its advance depends.

I [also] know that, on my deathbed, I shall still be believing with one part of my brain that somewhere on every ocean of the world there is a grey, grey ship with three funnels and sixteen-inch guns which can blow out of the water any other navy which is likely to face it. I know it is not so. Indeed, I realised at a relatively early age that it is not so. But that factor – that emotional factor... will not die until I, the carrier of it, am dead.

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.