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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

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.

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

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get "something." That's the way our system works.

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

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

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

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

It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.

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

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Better bend than break.

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.