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
eggs broken should
If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.
dignity blind obedience
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.
succeed should plunder
We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.
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.
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.
favour economy particular
Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.
planning plans planners
The more the planners, the worse the plans.
democracy demon
Drift is the demon of democracy.
corruption has-beens compulsory
Corruption never has been compulsory.
time discovery succeed
Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.
long luck
Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.
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.
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.