Appeasement Quotes

• "Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Cute, Friends, Sweet

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• No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Bombs, Ruthlessness

  The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940

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• Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

  Dean Rusk

  Aggressive, Aggressors

  "Fictional character: Dean Rusk". "Thirteen Days", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Educational, Humorous

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

  Mitt Romney

  Strong, Believe, Past

  "Mitt Romney victory speech in New Hampshire". www.politico.com.

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• Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.

  Ronald Reagan

  Lying, Presidential, Risk

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.

  Ronald Reagan

  Safety, Evil, Security

  Ronald Reagan (1989). “Speaking my mind: selected speeches”, Simon & Schuster

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• The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

  Winston Churchill

  Procrastination, Entering, Delay

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.126, A&C Black

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• Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

  Heywood Broun

  Believe, Vegetarian, Steak

  "The Wisdom of China and India". Book by Lin Yutang, 1942.

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• You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

  Anthony Eden

  Peace, May, Way

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1965). “The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon”

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• Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of Europe, for the removal of those suspicions and those animosities which have so long poisoned the air. The path which leads to appeasement is long and bristles with obstacles. The question of Czechoslovakia is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous. Now that we have got past it, I feel that it may be possible to make further progress along the road to sanity.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Past, Air, Europe

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• If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

  Ronald Reagan

  Simple, Thinking, Politics

  Ronald Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.136, Humanix Books

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• I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Air, Agreement, Smell

  1990 Describing the western attitude to the Gulf crisis. In The Independent, 31 Oct.

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• There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Mean, Demand

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.

  Ronald Reagan

  Answers, Ifs

  Los Angeles Times, April 8, 1970.

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• A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

  Ronald Reagan

  Reading, Matter, Shows

  Ronald Reagan (1998). “A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan”

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• Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Years

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• Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

  William Allen White

  Tyrants, Tyranny, Treason

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• And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

  Winston Churchill

  Recovery, Years, Cups

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Peace, Doe, Passive

  "Obama’s Peace Assets in the Middle East" by Rabbi Michael M. Cohen, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2013.

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• Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

  Mark Steyn

  Comfort, Vote, Moments

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.37, Regnery Publishing

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• No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Kitten, Pearl Harbor Day

  The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940

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• There's going to be no more compromise on issues where there should not be compromise. Enough with appeasement or apology and mollifying, all that. To hell with all that. I'm just going to fight my corner.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fighting, Apology, Issues

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Mean, Power, Secret

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• It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

  Michael Scheuer

  War, Thinking, Self

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