William Bennett Quotes
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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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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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It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
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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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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
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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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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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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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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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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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People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people - people of character and moral literacy - can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and some of its pervasive particulars.
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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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A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.
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We are here to help one another along life's journey.
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A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
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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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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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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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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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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 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. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.
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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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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
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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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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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William Bennett
- Born: July 31, 1943
- Occupation: Former United States Secretary of Education
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