Anthony Eden
Anthony Eden
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PCwas a British Conservative politician who served three periods as Foreign Secretary and then a relatively brief term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 June 1897
democracy demon
Drift is the demon of democracy.
country men egypt
Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements.
mean men slave
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
favour economy particular
Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.
car worst
The worst of being sacked is you can never find your car.
long preparation world
No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states.
corruption has-beens compulsory
Corruption never has been compulsory.
iran iraq effort
If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini, and our friends in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and even Iran would gradually have been brought down. His efforts would have spread westwards, and Libya and North Africa would have been brought under his control.
may way gains
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
men do-unto-others values
Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.
succeed should plunder
We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.
dignity blind obedience
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.
hands order doubt
There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler's. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini.
mean may politician
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.