Their children learned the lesson of compromise only too well, and it was the application of it to a question of fundamental morals that cost us our civil war. We learned once for all that compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; that it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.


On Democracy (6 October 1884)

James Russell Lowell Quotes

Their children learned the lesson of compromise only too well, and it was the application of it to a question of fundamental morals that cost us our...

Their children learned the lesson of compromise only too well, and it was the application of it to a question of fundamental morals that cost us our...

Their children learned the lesson of compromise only too well, and it was the application of it to a question of fundamental morals that cost us our...

Their children learned the lesson of compromise only too well, and it was the application of it to a question of fundamental morals that cost us our...