Quote by Charles Sumner
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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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Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. – Charles Sumner

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No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. – Charles Sumner

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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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

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