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    From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

by Charles Swindoll Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.

Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.

by G. K. Chesterton Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

by George Herbert Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at read more

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.

by Louis Untermeyer Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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Better bend than break.

Better bend than break.

by Scottish Proverb Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

by Howard Hughes Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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