Quotes from West to our Secular Brigade

    * An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. (Winston Churchill)

    * No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. (Dean Acheson)

    * I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. (Margaret Thatcher)

    * 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)

    * Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian. (Heywood Broun)

    * The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. (Konrad Adenauer)

    * You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. (Anthony Eden)

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