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The more the planners, the worse the plans.

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Anthony Eden
Age: 79 †
Born: 1897
Born: June 12
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
Aristocrat
Diplomat
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Politician
Durham
England
Robert Anthony Eden
1st Earl of Avon
Sir Anthony Eden
Lord Avon
Earl of Avon
Planners
Planning
Worse
Plans

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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 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.
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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.
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Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
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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.
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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.
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Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise.
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Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.
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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.
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Eden ha[s] put his country in a position where she sustained the greatest diplomatic reverse since Bismarck in similar circumstances had called Palmerston's bluff in the matter of Schleswig-Holstein...Further damage was done when Russia proved by her action in Spain, that she was not a good European as Mr. Eden had assured the world was the case.
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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.
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I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.
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