6 Quotes filtered by Edward Grey
The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.
Edward Grey
Category: Ministers
The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.
Edward Grey
Category: Rule of Law
There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.
Edward Grey
Category: Defence
Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.
Edward Grey
Category: International Relations
Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.
Edward Grey
Category: Books
The lamps are going out all over Europe.
Edward Grey 03/08/1914
On the eve of World War I
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, World War I
