If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.

If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the read more

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