“When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.” PeopleMadeIdeasDifferentStatesHappensFatherBeliefRealizingUnitedUnited StatesGeniusCompromiseMakeupSenateFoundingOur Founding FathersDifferent Ideas Author:Claire McCaskill
“The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!” WorldYearsTwoIdeasStatesStruggleDemocracyGreaterCompromiseAlternativesReliefCyclesPermitFascismRegimesFascistsTwo WorldsNo Compromise Author:Benito Mussolini
“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.” IfsWarStatesHandsNationsGoes OnCompromiseCivil WarGloriousFree State Book:Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged) Source: Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)