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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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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
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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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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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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.
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We are here to help one another along life's journey.
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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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In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
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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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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.
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It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.
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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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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
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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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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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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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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
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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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It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
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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.
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