The Thruth-is-always-in-the-middle Damper

"Let us not be diverted by more of these sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belaboured - contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong."
Abraham Lincoln, speech at the Cooper Union, New York City, 27.2.1860 (in Antony Flew, Thinking about thinking - or, do I sincerely want to be right?, p. 44)