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 MoynihanThe American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanThe 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 MoynihanThe great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanIf the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan