Anthony Eden Quotations

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.

The more the planners, the worse the plans.

All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.