Anthony Eden

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

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

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

“Corruption never has been compulsory.”

“... 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.”

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

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

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