Accurate Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human…

— Abraham Lincoln

“With so much new territory to carve into states, the balance of Congressional power became a hot topic in the decade after the purchase,…

— Charles River Editors

Don't Ask, Don't Tell was a successful compromise in 1993; and so that compromise should remain.

— Mike Pence

In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit…

— Jay Carney

Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant,…

— Nathaniel Lyon

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the…

— Bill Vaughan

“Thomas Jefferson's Letter to John Holmes on the Missouri Statehood Question – April 20, 1820 I thank you, dear Sir, for the copy you…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Correction of past wrongdoings, like ending slavery and dismantling legal segregation, confirmed the rightness of our ideals. Nothing fundamental about those ideals needed to…

— Eddie S. Glaude Jr

Compromise is an honorable word.

— John Dingell

A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is…

— John C. Calhoun

“was significant that every historic decision of the Truman Cabinet was debated by Congress only after it had been made irreversible.”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

Compromise is part of how we get things done.

— Kim Reynolds