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