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| Compromise Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. | Johnson | Samuel |
| 2 | All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. | Burke | Edmund |
| 3 | What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. | Carman | Bliss |
| 4 | Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. | Chesterton | G.K. |
| 5 | The cause for which the battle is waged is comprised within lines clearly and distinctly defined. It should never be compromised. It is the people's cause. | Cleveland | Grover |
| 6 | If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. | Disraeli | Benjamin |
| 7 | It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong one. | Hubbard | Elbert |
| 8 | Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. | Kaufman | Reginald Wright |
| 9 | Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. | Lowell | James |
| 10 | My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-It gives a lovely light. | Millay | Edna St. Vincent |
| 12 quotations on Compromise |



