Anthony Eden Quotes

Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

The duty of defense is maintain peace and avoid war.

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war.

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution to fight to the finish before going ahead with our construction. If you are afraid of war day in day out, what will you do if war eventually comes? First, I said that the East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind and war will not break out, and now I have added these explanations about the situation in case war should break out. Both possibilities have thus been taken into account.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.