Quotes About Fait accompli

We need to be very careful. Democracy is the issue, and democracy ought to be the means by which we decide these issues, rather than secret negotiations resulting in a fait accompli being presented to us.

Grant notified the president that he had vacated the office and no longer functioned as war secretary. Faced with this fait accompli, Johnson was furious, believing Grant should have resigned his post and allowed him to name a successor.

Some things are not the product of a negotiation. The Ten Commandments was not a negotiated document. It's certainly difficult to negotiate with the Lord when he presents you with a fait accompli etched in stone.

The baby was presented to me, to all of us, as a fait accompli, a legal adoption, suggested and agreed upon by the parents, and nobody questioned this, or not out loud. No one asked what "agreement" could even mean in a situation of such deep imbalance.