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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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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
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Brooklyn
New York
William John Bennett
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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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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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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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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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The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
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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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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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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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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
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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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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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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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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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In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
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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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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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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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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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