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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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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
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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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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.
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A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
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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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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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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.
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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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We are here to help one another along life's journey.
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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
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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.
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In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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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.
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A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.
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It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
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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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From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.
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