William Bennett Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• 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.

  William Bennett

  Heart, Would Be, Way

  "A Failure of the Press" by William Bennett and Alan Dershowitz, www.washingtonpost.com. February 23, 2006.

• Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

  William Bennett

  Thankful, Gratitude, Needs

  William J. Bennett (1995). “Moral Compass: Stories for a Life's Journey”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  "The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories". Book edited by William Bennett, reason.com. 1993.

• 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

  William J. Bennett, John T.E. Cribb (2013). “The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America”, p.14, Thomas Nelson

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