William Bennett Quotes

26 quotes in 445 categories

• Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
• America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
• 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.
• 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…
• Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
• Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
• We are here to help one another along life's journey.
• 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…
• It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
• There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
• 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…
• All real education is the architecture of the soul.
• If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
• Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.
• Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

Browse William Bennett Quotes by Category