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
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.
eggs broken should
If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.
good question wise
That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
war action
We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
country powerful reality
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.
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.
war egypt conflict
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.
country eden russia
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.