Quotes about Compromise
My husband lets me have all the scrapbooking supplies I can hide.
— Anonymous
You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war.
— Anonymous
America is infatuated with this false understanding of tolerance. To be truly tolerant is not to give every idea equal standing or to compromise the truth in the interest of keeping the peace and making everyone happy.
— Franklin Graham
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
— Jimmy Carter
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
— Charles Swindoll
Let's face it. Our ass is in a crack. We're gonna have to let this nigger bill pass. [Said to Senator John Stennis (D-MS) during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957]
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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— Samuel Johnson
I agree with you, that in Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.
— John Adams
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
— Cicero
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
— Mark Twain
Each party should gain from the negotiation.
— Dale Carnegie
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
— Mahatma Gandhi