35 Quotes by 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 have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been through all that.

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.