Enoch Powell Quotes
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
Powell, J. Enoch. Quoted in Heffer, Simon. Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998, p. 77.
The original plan was to kidnap Lincoln from Ford’s Theater and hold him as ransom for Confederate Prisoners of War. However, other conspirators thought it would be difficult to spirit the President out of the theater. Actually, after Booth attended a Lincoln speech, he changed his mind and changed the objective to assassination. See {623953}.
John Enoch Powell MBE was a British politician, classical scholar, author, linguist, soldier, philologist, and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (1950–1974), then Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP (1974–1987), and was Minister of Health (1960–1963).