compliance quotes

   All I wanted was compliance with my wishes after reasonable discussion.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
Attributed. Quoted in  A  J P  Taylor From the Boer War to theCold War: Essays on Twentieth-Century Europe (1995).

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, bya timely compliance, prevented him.

- Henry Fielding
  Jonathan Wild, bk.3, ch.7.

The nation suspects that the regular ministerial majorities in Parliament are bought, and that the Crown hasmadea purchase oftheHousewiththemoneyofthe people. Hence the ready, tame and servile compliance to every royal verdict issued by Lord North† It is almost universally believed that this debt has been contracted in corrupting the representatives of the people.

- Samuel Whitbread
  House of Commons,16 Apr.