Well, this is a good place as any to collect great quotes I suppose;
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian. --Heywood Broun
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. --Abraham Lincoln
People sleep peaceably in their bed at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. --George Orwell
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. --George Orwell
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. --George Orwell
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose. - Ronald Reagan
Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong. - Ronald Reagan
No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. - Ronald Reagan
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. --George Washington
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. - Lord Acton
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord Acton