Anthony Eden Quotes

• If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

  Anthony Eden

  Broken Heart, Eggs, Broken Promises

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• 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.

  Anthony Eden

  Country, Men, Egypt

  "Oil route 'a matter of life and death". The Times, (p. 6), August 9, 1956.

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• 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.

  Anthony Eden

  Hands, Order, Doubt

  Anthony Eden (1960). “The Memoirs of Full Circle”

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• We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

  Anthony Eden

  War, Egypt, Conflict

  1956 On the Suez crisis, House of Commons, 4 Nov.

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• Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

  Anthony Eden

  Dignity, Blind, Obedience

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• The more the planners, the worse the plans.

  Anthony Eden

  Planning, Plans, Planners

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• You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

  Anthony Eden

  Peace, May, Way

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1965). “The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon”

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• I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

  Anthony Eden

  Mean, May, Politician

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• Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

  Anthony Eden

  Freedom, Mean, Men

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• Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

  Anthony Eden

  Long, Luck

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• Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

  Anthony Eden

  Time, Discovery, Succeed

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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.

  Anthony Eden

  Country, Powerful, Reality

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• 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.

  Anthony Eden

  Iran, Iraq, Effort

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• Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

  Anthony Eden

  Political, Politics, Favour

  1956 In the Observer, 17 Jun.

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• We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.

  Anthony Eden

  Succeed, Should, Plunder

  "The Suez Crisis" by Anthony Gorst and Lewis Johnman, Routledge, (p. 70), 2013.

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• We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.

  Anthony Eden

  War, Action

  1956 House of Commons, 1 Nov.

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• 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.

  Anthony Eden

  Work, Justice, Long

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• 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.

  Anthony Eden

  Power, Office, Able

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1965). “The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon”

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• Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.

  Anthony Eden

  Men, Do Unto Others, Values

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• Corruption never has been compulsory.

  Anthony Eden

  Corruption, Has Beens, Compulsory

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• All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.

  Anthony Eden

  Government, Prejudice

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1969). “Days for decision”

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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.

  Anthony Eden

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

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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.

  Anthony Eden

  Country, Russia, Eden

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• The worst of being sacked is you can never find your car.

  Anthony Eden

  Car, Worst

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• Drift is the demon of democracy.

  Anthony Eden

  Democracy, Demon

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1960). “The Eden Memoirs”

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