I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
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You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.
Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
The fact is, you never compromise on principles. If people on the far Left, they have a principle to stand by, they should never compromise; those of us on the Right should not either.
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.