Quotes About Compromise

We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

Peace is obtained by war.

Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.

Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?

War is an admission of failure

Our goal is not to win the war, we have already done it. Our goal is to find a just solution, and we are unanimous on the ways to find it.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

War should always be the absolute last resort.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.