"Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and……" — Jose Maria Aznar

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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
• There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history… — Douglas MacArthur
• Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening… — George H. W. Bush
• Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us… — Ronald Reagan
• You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that… — Anthony Eden
• The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask… — John Stott
• Art is either a complaint or appeasement. — Jasper Johns
• "Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings… — Herbert Read
• 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
• Any appeasement of tyranny is treason. — William Allen White
• 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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