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

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“Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.”
Tryon Edwards quotes (American Theologian, 1809-1894)
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“COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes
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“It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.”
Elbert Hubbard quotes (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)
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“You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.”
William Butler Yeats quotes (Irish prose Writer, Dramatist and Poet. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. 1865-1939)
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“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.”
James Russell Lowell quotes (American Poet, Critic, Essayist, Editor and Diplomat, 1819-1891)
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“Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.”
Thomas S. Monson quotes (American Bishop, b.1927)
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“Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.”

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“You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil”
John Ruskin quotes (English Writer and Critic of art, architecture, and society, 1819-1900)
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“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece”
Ludwig Erhard quotes (German Economist, Minister and Chancellor (1963-66). 1897-1977)
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