Churchill on Appeasement

Quoting the same article twice is probably bad form, but I had to highlight one of Churchill’s lesser-known lines, which should be thrown back in the face of hawks every time the word “appeasement” is uttered in public:

“The word ‘appeasement’ is not popular, but appeasement has its place in all policy,” he said in 1950. “Make sure you put it in the right place. Appease the weak, defy the strong.” He argued that “appeasement from strength is magnanimous and noble and might be the surest and perhaps the only path to world peace.” And he remarked on the painful irony: “When nations or individuals get strong they are often truculent and bullying, but when they are weak they become better-mannered. But this is the reverse of what is healthy and wise.”