英國Lord Palmerston(1784–1865)說的。原話是“?沒有永恒的盟友，沒有永恒的敵人。利益萬歲，壹以貫之。”
We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
speech, House of Commons, 1 March 1848
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只是丘吉爾引用為“Neither friends nor rivals are everlasting，but only profits”再加上名聲太大，後人不辨真偽以訛傳訛。