13 William Andrew Cicil Bennett Quotes

William Andrew Cicil Bennett quotes

1. The finest sound in the land is the ringing of cash registers.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

5. Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."