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. Anthony Eden More Quotes by Anthony Eden More Quotes From Anthony Eden If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette. Anthony Eden broken-promisesbroken-hearteggs There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler's. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini. Anthony Eden doubtorderhands Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements. Anthony Eden egyptmencountry I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty. Anthony Eden politicianmaymean The more the planners, the worse the plans. Anthony Eden plannersplanningplans You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. Anthony Eden maypeaceway Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty. Anthony Eden succeedtimediscovery We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict. Anthony Eden egyptconflictwar 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 motherbeautifulfather Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means. Anthony Eden freedommenmean Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. Anthony Eden obediencedignityblind Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure. Anthony Eden favourpoliticspolitical Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him. Anthony Eden do-unto-othersvaluesmen Eden ha[s] put his country in a position where she sustained the greatest diplomatic reverse since Bismarck in similar circumstances had called Palmerston's bluff in the matter of Schleswig-Holstein...Further damage was done when Russia proved by her action in Spain, that she was not a good European as Mr. Eden had assured the world was the case. Anthony Eden russiaedencountry No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states. Anthony Eden workjusticelong The free world has need that its foreign policies should fairly measure the realities of the world in which we live. There are certain principles to which we hold: the sanctity of treaties, good faith between nations, the interdependence of peoples from which no country, however powerful, can altogether escape. Anthony Eden powerfulcountryreality 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. Anthony Eden iraniraqeffort Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong. Anthony Eden lucklong Corruption never has been compulsory. Anthony Eden compulsoryhas-beenscorruption We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed. Anthony Eden plundersucceedshould
