Quotes about Compromise
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
— William McKinley
Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
— Winston Churchill
It takes two to make peace.
— John F. Kennedy
Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.
— Barack Obama
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
— Winston Churchill
In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
— Aristotle
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.
— Ronald Reagan
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
— Reinhold Niebuhr