I Have No Doubt That The Real

America's Support For Human Rights And Democracy Is Our Noblest Export To The World.

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.

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.

I Do Not Suggest That You Should Not Have An Open Mind ... But Don't Keep Your Mind So Open That Your Brains Fall Out.

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.