Quotes About Compromise

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

The only way two ever live more cheaply than one is if one of them gives up what he or she wants.

We need to get back into grappling with people we disagree with if we want to restore the Republic.

As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

I believe it is peace for our time.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.