A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, “Huh. It works. It makes sense.”
Compromise Quotes
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Who seeks to please all men each way, and not himself offend, he may begin his work today, but God knows where he’ll end.
All government indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter.
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
Nearly all legislation is the result of a compromise.
Your “If” is the only peacemaker; much virtue in “If.” (As You Like It)
In legislation we all do a lot of “swapping tobacco across the lines.”
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
