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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/if-we-had-allowed-things-to-drift-everything-would-have-gone-from-bad/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

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> [Drift is the demon of democracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/drift-is-the-demon-of-democracy/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

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## Other authors on Drift

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-lil-wyte-60299.jpg) Becca Spradlin, Lead On Mission 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drift/becca-spradlin-lead-on-mission/)

## More by Anthony Eden

> [Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/nothing-is-more-destructive-of-human-dignity-than-a-rule-which/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/if-we-had-allowed-things-to-drift-everything-would-have-gone-from-bad/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/we-best-avoid-wars-by-taking-even-physical-action-to-stop-small-ones/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/you-may-gain-temporary-appeasement-by-a-policy-of-concession-to/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/we-have-many-times-led-europe-in-the-fight-for-freedom-it-would-be-an/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/we-cannot-agree-that-an-act-of-plunder-which-threatens-the-livelihood/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [The worst of being sacked is you can never find your car.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/the-worst-of-being-sacked-is-you-can-never-find-your-car/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [“... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/if-one-hasn-t-been-through-as-our-people-mercifully-did-not-go/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/slowly-and-painfully-man-is-learning-that-he-must-do-unto-others-what/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/everyone-is-always-in-favour-of-general-economy-and-particular/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/every-succeeding-scientific-discovery-makes-greater-nonsense-of-old/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/it-is-a-common-happening-that-those-in-power-as-their-tenure-of/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [Everybody is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/everybody-is-always-in-favor-of-general-economy-and-particular/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/all-prejudices-are-equally-fatal-to-good-government/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

> [The more the planners, the worse the plans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-eden/the-more-the-planners-the-worse-the-plans/)

[Anthony Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-eden/)

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