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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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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
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William John Bennett
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If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.
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The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.
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Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.
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The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of our children.
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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.
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Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
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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.
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I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.
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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.'
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Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother - after all, your country nourishes you, protects you, and in many ways makes you who you are. Just as it's a virtue to honor your parents, it's a good and admirable thing to honor the land you call home.
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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.
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Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.
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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
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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.
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