“Our age is an age of moderate virtue
And moderate vice”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
“Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.”
1790s, Letter to the Addressers (1792)
Context: A thing, moderately good, is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.
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George Mason (1725–1792) American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
Article 15
Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
La modération des grands hommes ne borne que leurs vices. La modération des faibles est médiocrité.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 168.
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Barry Goldwater (1909–1998) American politician
Acceptance Speech as the 1964 Republican Presidential candidate. Variants and derivatives of this that are often quoted include:
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue; extremism in the defense of freedom is no vice.
“As tempers rose, a compromise was urged by certain moderates, whom everyone ignored.”
Bruce Sterling (1954) American writer, speaker, futurist, and design instructor
Short fiction, The Peak of Eternal Light (2012)
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
"Catholics", published in The Edinburgh Review (1827)
“And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
Karl Hess (1923–1994) American journalist
Barry Goldwater's speech http://www.c-span.org/video/?4018-1/goldwater-1964-acceptance-speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination, written by Karl Hess, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco. <br class="br">Context: I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”
Joseph Hall (1574–1656) British bishop
Christian Moderation, introduction.