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
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.
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.
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.