Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is a temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell
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  1. To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder? - Ayn Rand

  2. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. - John F. Kennedy

  3. Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good? - Laurell K. Hamilton

  4. Compromise is a stalling between two fools. - Stephen Fry

  5. I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. - Ayn Rand

More Quotes By James Russell Lowell
  1. Fate loves the fearless.

  2. Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

  3. Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

  4. In creating the only hard thing's to begin

  5. A wise man travels to discover himself.

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