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“There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.”

Wisdom Politics Lost Principles Economy Slavery Compromise Liberalism No Compromise Expedience

Book:Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

“Nothing can do men of good will more harm than apparent compromises with parties that subscribe to antimoral and antidemocratic and anti-God forces. We must have the courage to detach our support from men who are doing evil. We must bear them no hatred, but we must break with them.”

Men Wisdom Evil Politics Force Can Do Party Break Support Economy Bears Hatred Harm Compromise Liberalism Good Will Anti God

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. Twenty millions in the temperate zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, full of vigor, industry, inventive genius, educated, and moral; increasing by immigration rapidly, and, above all, free--all free--will form a confederacy of twenty States scarcely inferior in real power to the unfortunate Union of thirty-three States which we had on the first of November.”

Source: Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)

“Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A commitment to truth over spin; 4) A commitment to courage over cowardice; and 5) A commitment, or willingness, to give up power.”

Giving Political Politics Term Ability Principles Five Keys Giving Up Commitment Compromise Willingness Cowardice Statesmen Exhibits Term Limits

Author:Tom Coburn

“I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.”

Politics Interest Economy Circumstances Increase Slavery Slave Compromise All Time Limitation Combination Liberalism Representation Extensions

Author:Daniel Webster

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

Wisdom Political Politics Poor Party Wise Commitment Compromise Temporary Roof Umbrella Unwise Statesmanship

Book:Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes

Source: Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes

“It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.”

Might Values Politics Constitution Majority Passing Passings Compromise Amendments Framers

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor