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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No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. – 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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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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Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. – Gunther Grass

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It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man. – Elbert Hubbard

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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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