“Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price. It is worth living for; it is worth fighting for; and it is worth dying for.”

—  Enoch Powell

Speech in Stockport (8 June 1973), quoted in The Times (9 June 1973), p. 3
1970s

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