To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
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 atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanLiberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan