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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread.

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. – G. K. Chesterton

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

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Better bend than break. – Scottish Proverb

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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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