Quotes of The Day

True words from a true leader make up today's (2) quotes of the day.

"We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: 'smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation.' Compromise need not mean cowardice. ..."

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

-John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President, United States of America