Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty

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

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

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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. – Arthur Bloch

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The English never draw a line without blurring it. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Compromise. 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

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