Occupation: Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom Birth: June 12, 1897 Death: January 14, 1977
Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, str….
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 kee….
Eden ha[s] put his country in a position where she sustained the greatest diplomatic reverse since Bismarck in similar circumstances had called Palme….
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..
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict..
If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette..
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way..
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….
Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong..
Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him..
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty..
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means..
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..
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 equiv….
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 w….
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….
Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty..
Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure..
Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman..
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience..