"No man can tame a tiger into a……" — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"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."
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383 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no…
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My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant…
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The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men…
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Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
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For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs…
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Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in…
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To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be…
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who…
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than…
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Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last.…
— John Naughton
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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…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening…
— George H. W. Bush
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Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us…
— Ronald Reagan
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You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that…
— Anthony Eden
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The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask…
— John Stott
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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
— Jasper Johns
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"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings…
— Herbert Read
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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…
— Barack Obama
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Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
— William Allen White
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Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.
— Chris Huhne
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