WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 05 May 2026 17:55:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg temperate – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Paine, Thomas -- “Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation” (1791) https://wist.info/paine-thomas/5190/ https://wist.info/paine-thomas/5190/#respond Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:47:20 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=5190 Those words, “temperate and moderate,” are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. 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.


Thomas Paine (1737-1809) American political philosopher and writer
“Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation” (1791)
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