Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 581 |
| AUTHOR: | Barry Morris Goldwater (1909–98) |
| QUOTATION: | Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Senator Senator Goldwater comments that the remark was not original with him: “In fact, I believe Cicero used it in some form at one time, and I have been able to trace it rather faintly back to some of the early Greeks so, while I was very proud of the fact that I made the speech, it’s certainly not original.” |
| SUBJECTS: | Extremism |