Quotes about Compromise
Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.
- Ronald Reagan
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
- William Howard Taft
Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.
- Alistair Begg
We were made for more than compromise. We were made for God's promises in every area of our lives.
- Lysa TerKeurst
God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
- John Calvin
When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise.
- Kris Vallotton
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.
- Dale Carnegie
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.
- Barack Obama