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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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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
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New York
William John 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.
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The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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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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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
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