By FRNash/PHX, AZ (Frnash) on Friday, June 29, 2018 - 04:29 pm:
Pat & Glenda (Gormfrog):
Quote:Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice;
moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
.......Karl Hess
Karl Hess — an American speechwriter and author, widely considered to be the author of the renowned Goldwater line:
Quote:"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!"
— Barry Goldwater
… in a speech at the Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco on July 16, 1964.
… but Hess later revealed that he had encountered it in a letter from Lincoln historian Harry Jaffa and later learned it was a paraphrase of a passage from Cicero. (Perhaps from Aristotle via Cicero?)
Though neither Hess nor Goldwater mentioned Thomas Paine's name in Goldwater's acceptance speech, this was drawn directly from the words of Thomas Paine's words:
Quote:"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is a species of vice."
On October 31, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson, the Democratic contender for the presidency, replied in a speech in New York:
Quote:"Extremism is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue."
… and then a bit later:
Quote:“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
— Malcolm X”
… in his famous response in the Oxford Union Debate, December 3, 1964, the last speech he gave in public.
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