Be merciful, moderate, and modest.

The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple…

— Laozi

The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.

— Charles Tomlinson

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

— Benjamin Whichcote

I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.

— Mitt Romney

[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in…

— Newt Gingrich

What did John Ashcroft say about moderates, he said, quote, there are two things you find in the middle of the road, a moderate…

— John Ashcroft

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

— Junius

There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas.…

— John Darnielle

“In politics, everyone regards themselves as a moderate, because they know some other sumbitch who's twice as crazy as they are.”

— Timothy B. Tyson

It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.

— Athenaeus

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…

— Claire McCaskill

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

— Michel de Montaigne

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in…

— Barney Frank