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From: jaw@aurora.UUCP (James A. Woods)
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Subject: news.misc credos for the week of june 25
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Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 23:04:12 EDT
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# 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