Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line - and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?
Sen. Jesse Helms (1921-2008), writing in 1959 on compromise in politics.
If America isn't about freedom from the State, then it isn't about anything except lovely landscapes - and money and malls, but most countries are about those things, more or less.