"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, What's Wrong with the World

"Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward." - REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN, The Way of Peace

"Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy." - PHYLLIS MCGINLEY, The Province of the Heart

"If you want to get along, go along." - SAM RAYBURN, quoted in Neil MacNeil's Forge of Democracy