William Bennett famous quotes

04-05-2025

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
-- William Bennett

#Motivational #Jobs #Attitude
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
-- William Bennett

#Gratitude #Thankfulness #Needs
We are here to help one another along life's journey.
-- William Bennett

#Respect #Journey #Helping
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
-- William Bennett

#Character #Government #Presidential
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.
-- William Bennett

#Children #Character #Needs
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.
-- William Bennett

#Christian #Religious #Anchors
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.
-- William Bennett

#Christian #Religious #New York
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.
-- William Bennett

#Christian #Running #Religious
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.
-- William Bennett

#Christian #Religious #Firsts
The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
-- William Bennett

#Christian #Religious #Source
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.
-- William Bennett

#Christian #Religious #Belief
I have no doubt that the real irritation of those on the religious right is not that their particular creed is not embraced by the schools, but that often their creed is the only one singled out for contempt.
-- William Bennett

#Christian #Religious #Real
What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
-- William Bennett

#Christian #Religious #Fun
President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
-- William Bennett

#Christian #Religious #War
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
-- William Bennett

#Christian #Religious #Battle
Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
-- William Bennett

#Christian #Religious #Names
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.
-- William Bennett

#Christian #Religious #America
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
-- William Bennett

#Education #School #Years
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
-- William Bennett

#America #Rights #Support
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.
-- William Bennett

#Education #Character #People
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.
-- William Bennett

#Character #Issues #People
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.
-- William Bennett

#Character #Ideas #People
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.
-- William Bennett

#Children #Educational #School
I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.
-- William Bennett

#Country #Powerful #Thinking
Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
-- William Bennett

#Home #Storm #Shelter
Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
-- William Bennett

#Years #Once Upon A Time #Television
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.
-- William Bennett

#Children #Adults #Example
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.
-- William Bennett

#Mother #Country #Father

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