If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. — Jose Maria Aznar Copy Share Image
It is truly appalling for Senator Mark Kirk to equate the Obama Administration's diplomacy with Nazi appeasement. As a Jewish-American, I am… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
May I just single out for salutations, on the "anti-war" side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
There's going to be no more compromise on issues where there should not be compromise. Enough with appeasement or apology and mollifying,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
If anything good is going to emerge out of this, it's going to be the result of an acceptable modus vivendi between… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous. — George Allen Copy Share Image
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable. — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Recall when the Congress-led government was in power; then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had talked about who had rights to the country's resources.… — Yogi Adityanath Copy Share Image
If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them… Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
