Reply With QuoteMy sense of irony was well founded then. Poor dodge.Originally Posted by British-Conservatism
Winston Churchill
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Charles Darwin
William Shakespeare
Sir Isaac Newton
Queen Elizabeth I
Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson
Ted Heath
Margaret Thatcher
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If we all followed ideology and blueprints instead of Patriotism you would find Hitlers British SS contingent in 1940 boosted by around half a million men.
My sense of irony was well founded then. Poor dodge.
When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
Frederic Bastiat
Ditto.
He was a wise man powel he saw what was coming even if his carrear concerned masters didnt.Ditto.
There will never be a socalist utopia, Nothings perfect.
Simon Cowell
He's not in the poll though for some reason
Is deas an rud beagán ach dhéanamh go maith
Adam Smith
David Hume
John Locke
Arthur Koestler
Bertrand Russell
Thomas Paine
Mick Jagger
etc
What did he actually achieve in his political life?
Precisely zero. Warning people against the dangers of immigration hardly counts as being great. It's not even particularly original either.
Powell ended up as a failure, shunned by all.
His only achievement of note was his sterling academic work.
low grade UAF operative
Ah the great inverse racist has skulked back. Thought that you might have gone for good. Pity.
Powell made two big mistakes.
He should have done one of the following.
1. Set up his own party and fought the 1970 election against Heath.
2. Stayed in the Conservative party and ran against Heath in 1975.
Typical of the rubbish you post. Are you incapable of coherent argument? You imply he achieved nothing and then say he did sterling academic work! Well? Which is it? Did he achieve anything or not?
Anyway, leaving Charlemagne to his inconsequential ramblings I shall return to topic.
Newton does it for me - perhaps the most important figure in science - ever.
But Churchill should also be there. Sure, he had his faults (who doesn't) but it is given to few men to extirpate a tyranny, and he did it with panache! I would say Churchill was certainly a case of "Cometh the hour, cometh the man!"
Do Edward Jenner and Crick and Watson not deserve a place on the list?
"There's no way to rule innocent men.
The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.
One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."~ Ayn Rand.
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