James Russell Lowell Quotes About Compromise

Quotes about: Compromise

• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

  James Russell Lowell

  Compromise, Poor, Umbrella

  1884 'On Democracy', speech in Birmingham, 6 Oct.

• 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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Wisdom, Party

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

• They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Compromise, Sin

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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