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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."
~late NY Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Also from Pat Moynihan:
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts."


"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
~from Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.