jaw@aurora.UUCP (James A. Woods) (06/30/87)
# I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation. -- William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, no. 1, January 1, 1831. # There is moderation even in excess. -- Benjamin Disraeli, 1826. # 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 always a vice. -- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, part 2, 1792. # Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And ... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -- Hess/Goldwater, 1964. # Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. -- introduction, Christian Moderation, 1640