Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

• You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Hechos, Opinión, Con derecho

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

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Education, Truth, Freedom

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Steven R. Weisman (2010). “Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary”, p.2, PublicAffairs

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• There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Relationship, Growing Up, Women

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1996). “Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy”, p.152, Harvard University Press

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• De algún modo, los liberales han sido incapaces de adquirir de por vida lo que los conservadores parecen estar dotados al nacer: a saber, un sano escepticismo sobre los poderes de las agencias gubernamentales para hacer el bien.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Agency, Government, Healthy

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• Lo más apasionante que se puede encontrar en la administración pública es la competencia, porque es muy poco frecuente.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Gobierno, Política, Libertad

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

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Heart, World, Break

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• 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

  Taken, Past, Welfare Programs

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• El matrimonio orienta a hombres y mujeres hacia el futuro, pidiéndoles no sólo que se comprometan mutuamente, sino que planifiquen, ganen, ahorren y se dediquen a mejorar las perspectivas de sus hijos.
  sino que planifiquen, ganen, ahorren y se dediquen a mejorar las perspectivas de sus hijos.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Familia, matrimonio, hijos

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• Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Thinking, Perfect, Hopeful

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• The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Force, American Life, Left

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• There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Error

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• 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.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Government, Important, World

  Fuente: articles.latimes.com

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• 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

  Change, Society, Culture

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1996). “Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy”, p.63, Harvard University Press

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• I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Radical, Robber Baron, Robbers

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• Si los periódicos de un país están llenos de buenas noticias, las cárceles de ese país estarán llenas de buenas personas.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  País, Cárcel, Gente

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• What is not discussed, will not be advanced.

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• 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.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Men, Capacity To Love, Understanding

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1987). “Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University”, Harcourt

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• The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Government, Too Much, Constitution

  Fuente: articles.latimes.com

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• In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Government, Done, Today

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• To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Loss, Past, Honor

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• One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Mean, Evil, Politics

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• A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Responsible Government, Eight, Years

  Fuente: articles.latimes.com

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• 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.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Marriage, Children, Government

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• 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.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Running, War, Democracy

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• Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Government, Inner Peace, Energy

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1975). “Coping: On the Practice of Government”, Vintage Books USA

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