Compromise. 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.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.