| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 45231 |
| QUOTATION: | Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from preconising [proclaiming] its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912), British Conservative politician. Quoted in The Listener (London, July 31, 1969). |
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