Patrick Moynihan
Patrick Moynihan
heart cities circles
We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis, where our Christmas tree is lighted.
men capacity-to-love understanding
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.
mistake
There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.
government important groups
I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.
marriage children government
The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.
education truth freedom
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
civilization elderly political
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.
heart fabric deterioration
At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.
heart world break
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
running war democracy
So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.
force destructive american-life
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
taken past welfare-programs
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.
country jail people
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
agency government healthy
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.