What you’ve got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
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.
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.
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one’s children.
I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
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.