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Former United States Secretary Of Education Inspirational Quotes (60)

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Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities. Always stand proud in who you are!
Margaret Spellings
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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
William Bennett
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What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
William Bennett
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America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.
William Bennett
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I have no doubt that the real irritation of those on the religious right is not that their particular creed is not embraced by the schools, but that often their creed is the only one singled out for contempt.
William Bennett
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Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
William Bennett
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Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
William Bennett
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There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.
William Bennett
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True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
William Bennett
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Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
William Bennett
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Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
William Bennett
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If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
William Bennett
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We are here to help one another along life's journey.
William Bennett
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Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins Once upon a time...
William Bennett
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I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.
William Bennett
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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
William Bennett
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When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can`t expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.
William Bennett
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The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
William Bennett
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I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.
William Bennett
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The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
William Bennett
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Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.
William Bennett
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I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.
William Bennett
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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
William Bennett
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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
William Bennett
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