Anthony Eden Quotes

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

War is failure of diplomacy.

We sit there because there is a war going on. But once we have peace we don’t want to be sitting on your Suez Canal.

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms

War is but an instrument of international policy.

I don’t think we should go to war with one person’s authority..

America has wearied of Middle East War.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.