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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Alternative Facts Free Speech Freedom Freedom Of Thought Lies Lies Politics

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Censorship Conspiracy Theories Democracy Dictatorship Freedom Human Rights Totalitarianism

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Conservative Liberal Politics

In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. Harvard men were to be checked; Fordham men would do the checking.

~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Irish Catholic Loyalty Security

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Apocalypse Ireland Irish

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Past Generation Measure

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan You Single Rare

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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