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
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Winston Churchill.
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
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of ‘Munich’ may exceed the original error of 1938. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr