Quotes About Compromise

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border.... We will find a compromise within the country.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

We want peace, but not at any price.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

We're not losing the peace.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

The negotiations must address all aspects, both peace and withdrawal.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.