Anthony Eden

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

— Anthony Eden

If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of…

— Anthony Eden

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

— Anthony Eden

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

— Anthony Eden

We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if…

— Anthony Eden

We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.

— Anthony Eden

The worst of being sacked is you can never find your car.

— Anthony Eden

“... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign…

— Anthony Eden

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.

— Anthony Eden

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

— Anthony Eden

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

— Anthony Eden

It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to…

— Anthony Eden

Everybody is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure

— Anthony Eden

All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.

— Anthony Eden

The more the planners, the worse the plans.

— Anthony Eden

There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just…

— Anthony Eden

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.

— Anthony Eden

Drift is the demon of democracy.

— Anthony Eden

Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he…

— Anthony Eden

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute…

— Anthony Eden

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

— Anthony Eden

Eden ha[s] put his country in a position where she sustained the greatest diplomatic reverse since Bismarck in similar circumstances had called…

— Anthony Eden

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

— Anthony Eden

Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and…

— Anthony Eden

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

— Anthony Eden