moderate quotes

   And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant, insufferable master.

- (John) Robinson Jeffers
  Tamar and Other Poems,'Shine, Perishing Republic'.

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.

-Walter Savage Landor
  Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans, 'Archdeacon Hare and Walter Landor'.

Our course in the House of Lords ought to be very firm and uncompromising but moderate†an example of what has since been called the politics of the extreme centre.

- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  Conduct of Opposition speech, Dec.