Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 252 |
| AUTHOR: | G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) |
| QUOTATION: | Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Compromise |