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

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If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. – Benjamin Disraeli

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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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