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

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

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

Compromise, hell! … If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time? – Senator Jesse Helms