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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.

William Bennett

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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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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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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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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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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
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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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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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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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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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The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
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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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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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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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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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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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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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Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.
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We are here to help one another along life's journey.
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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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