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
power office able
It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.
good question wise
That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
planning plans planners
The more the planners, the worse the plans.
government prejudice
All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.
long luck
Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.
wise good-questions answers
Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
fighting europe long
We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.
war action
We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
time discovery succeed
Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.
war egypt conflict
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.
real europe political
Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise.
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Eden ha[s] put his country in a position where she sustained the greatest diplomatic reverse since Bismarck in similar circumstances had called Palmerston's bluff in the matter of Schleswig-Holstein...Further damage was done when Russia proved by her action in Spain, that she was not a good European as Mr. Eden had assured the world was the case.
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Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.
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The free world has need that its foreign policies should fairly measure the realities of the world in which we live. There are certain principles to which we hold: the sanctity of treaties, good faith between nations, the interdependence of peoples from which no country, however powerful, can altogether escape.