compromise, n.Definitions

Compromise is best whenever practicability prevails.

Compromise is moving in the right direction more slowly than one might like.

Compromise is foundational to every government, human benefit, enjoyment, virtue, and prudent act.

Compromise is not a betrayal when a refusal to compromise would be a greater betrayal.

Compromise is the mark of life just as being uncompromising is the mark of art.

Compromise is, for the Englishman, such that some people say there is a God, some people say there is no God, and the truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

Compromise is an adjustment of conflicting interests which 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.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another too often ending in the loss of both.