A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

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

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

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.

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 adults take morality seriously.

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

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.