Moderates Quotes

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Moderate profits fill the purse.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry;

on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government, as a barrier against foreign foes, to equalize and moderate the public contributions, that while the requisite services are invited by due renumeration, nothing beyond this may exist to attract the attention of our citizens from the pursuits of useful industry, nor unjustly to burthen those who continue in those pursuitsthese are functions of the General Government on which you have a right to call.

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians;

a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet.

The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.

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 in a case like the present.

I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children.

I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.

Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.

The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for.

We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.

I consider myself a moderate Republican.

I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

Americans are probably more in line than ever before.

We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original.

It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful;

but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending;

An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam;

an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.

When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.