Don't Feed the Crocodile (or Bear)

Two great men: President Ronald Reagan and Sir Winston Churchill.

I love quotes, and I love it even more when I find one famous person paraphrasing or quoting another. Here, President Reagan does a riff off of Sir Winston. Both were staunch critics of appeasement. Wise words that we would do well to heed today.

"To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will!"
–Ronald Reagan

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile–hoping it will eat him last.”
- Sir Winston Churchill

That goes for feeding bears, too...