ANTHONY EDEN

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

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

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

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

Corruption never has been compulsory.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

How far are we to go in pursuit of greater security at the cost of essential liberties?

If people are going to stay in Office because of the money they get there, apart from the attractions of political life, they are going to be more difficult than ever to remove.

It is essential that the worker in industry should have the status of an individual and not a mere cog in a soulless machine.

We must face the fact that the United Nations is not yet the international equivalent of our own legal system and the rule of law.

There must always be a point at which we, as a nation, must make a stand and we must make a clearly make a stand when not to do so would forfeit our self-respect and the respect of others.

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

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

No more Munichs!

In his sensitive hands lay much of the world’s fate

The Americans want to replace the French in Indo China. They want to replace us in Egypt. They want to run the world.

Nasser is an Arab Mussolini.

If you drive a nation to adopt procedures which run counter to its instincts, you weaken and may destroy the motive force of its action... I am speaking of the frequent suggestion that the United Kingdom should join a federation on the continent of Europe. This is something which we know, in our bones, we cannot do...For Britain's story and her interests lie far beyond the continent of Europe. Our thoughts move across the seas to the many communities in which our people play their part, in every corner of the world. These are our family ties. That is our life: without it we should be no more than some millions of people living in an island off the coast of Europe, in which nobody wants to take any particular interest.

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.

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.

Drift is the demon of democracy.

The more the planners, the worse the plans.

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

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.