Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon Quotes & Sayings

The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

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, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon