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 EdenWe 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 EdenResponding 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.
Anthony EdenYou may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
Anthony EdenIt is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.
Anthony EdenEvery succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.
Anthony EdenNo 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 EdenOur 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