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.
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.
“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.
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.”
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.
“Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.”
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
Address at Des Moines, Iowa, (4 October 1932)
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Vice and Virtue, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
“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.”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
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.
“Every blossom I see reminds me of you”
Eddie Cantor (1892–1964) American actor, singer, dancer and comedian
Song, Every Blossom I See Reminds Me of You, written for Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 (music by Harry Ruby).
