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… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini,… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
“... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
