Anthony Eden (6 May 1897 – 5 February 1977) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957, and again from 1960 to 1963. He was the last serving British Prime Minister born before the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, and was the first former prime minister to die since 1923. His tenure as prime minister is best known for the Suez Crisis, whose consequences are still being felt today. On 19 June 2018, he will be posthumously commemorated by a blue plaque unveiled by his grandson, Alex Eden.
... 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.Anthony Eden
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.Anthony Eden
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.Anthony Eden
