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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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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.
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Family and Nation, ch. 3 (1986)

 
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