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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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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
Politician
Radio Personality
Brooklyn
New York
William John Bennett
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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 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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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
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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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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 new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
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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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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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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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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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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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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
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When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.
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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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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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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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We are here to help one another along life's journey.
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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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