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Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to read more
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.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come read more
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights read more
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
