"Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes."

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We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power

— Rutherford B. Hayes