115 Quotes About Moderation

A cardinal tenet of conservatism is that social inertia is – and ought to be – strong. It discourages and, if necessary, defeats the political grandiosity of those who would attempt to engineer the future by rupturing connections with the past.

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Here's to responsibility, twice a week.',

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts.

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yieldthemselves up when taken little by little.

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.