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Topic·Political compromise✕clear

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto von Bismarck

1867

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

On Conciliation with America · 1775

★ 5.3

No society, certainly not a large and heterogenous one, can fail in time to explode if it is deprived of the arts of compromise, if it knows no ways of muddling through. No good society can be unprincipled; and no viable society can be principle-ridden.

Alexander M. Bickel

The Least Dangerous Branch · 1962

★ 5.0

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

Thomas Jefferson

1789

★ 3.9

Open letter · Letter

The Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail · 1963

★ 3.9

In Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.

1776

★ 3.8

Essay · Political literature

If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard of perfection, society would soon become a general scene of anarchy, and the world a desert.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 65 · 1788

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

Constantly bearing in mind that in entering into society "individuals must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest," it will be my desire so to discharge my duties as to foster with our brethren in all parts of the country a spirit of liberal concession and compromise.

Second Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson · 1833

★ 3.7

I'm not going to make any compromise whatsoever.

2001

★ 1.9

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

1931

★ 1.8

We believe, and I think properly, that when the men who met in 1787 to make a Constitution made the best political document ever made, they did so very largely because they were great compromisers.

1951

★ 1.8