appeasement
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him
last."
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1954).
Churchill's statement that an appeaser is one who feeds a
crocodile, hoping that it will eat him last is well known.
FDR capped the statement with:
"Appeasement is the policy of feeding your friends to a
crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat
you last."
"There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind
the slender stockades of visionary speculations, or by hiding
behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories."
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Quoted in THE NEW YORK HERALD-
TRIBUNE (March 21, 1938).
"War is a dreadful thing, and unjust war is a crime against
humanity. But it is such a crime because it is unjust, not
because it is war."
Theodore Roosevelt, Speech, Sorbonne (1910)
"An honorable peace is attainable only by an efficient war."
Henry Clay, Speech, U.S. House of Representatives (1813).
The Bible nowhere prohibits war. In the Old Testament we find war
and even conquest positively commanded, and although war was
raging in the world in the time of Christ and His Apostles, still
they said not a word of its unlawfulness and immorality."
H.W. Halleck, ELEMENTS OF MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE
(1846).
"You may either win your peace or buy it; win it, by resistance
to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."
John Ruskin, THE TWO PATHS (1859).
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Does any of this sound familiar? I thought it was funny.
Last edited by Escott; 02-23-2003 at 05:12 PM.
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Has the DR-connection restriction been lifted?
